Word: couplets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always the case -although others may argue that the reforms simply did not go far enough. In any case, the Journal, more in the spirit of 18th century toryism, will now use such words as revision and change -a more neutral vocabulary. Oliver Goldsmith caught the spirit with his couplet in The Traveller...
Yeats' oft-quoted couplet sums up the ideal of ballet-the ideal so rarely achieved. And no wonder. Classical dance is at once the most sensuous and the most abstract of the theatrical arts. Its essence is the interaction of music with the movement of male and female bodies-the erotic impulse styled and formalized by discipline and grace and shaped to a unified whole...
Nothing less savage-or less funny -than Anthony Hecht's couplet commentary on Aesop, the slave as moralist, should introduce this small masterpiece on man's ingenious cruelty to man. Yambo Ouologuem (pronounced Oo-o-lo-guem), born 30 years ago in the French Sudan, now the Republic of Mali, writes from the point of view of victim. But what a victim...
...overtime or reductions in regular work weeks. Yet at last count during the month of October, consumer prices were still rising at the same annual rate of 7.2%. Measured against the Government's commonly used 1957-59 average, the buying power of the dollar dropped to 73¢. A new couplet is making the rounds...
...Dylan shows what must have made him want to back a Broadway musical by stealing almost verbatim a couplet from My Fair Lady; "Oh, what a wonderful feeling, just to know that you are near...