Word: couplets
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...rallying point of resistance. The West certainly has no grounds for claiming him as a political ally, and at best will have to live up to him as a moral one. Yet Zhivago has become one of those portents of freedom whose ends are incalculable. Among Moscow students a couplet goes...
...seemed very childish." Reminded of a youthfully immature shaft at Chekhov ("I like my Ibsen straight"). Eliot grinned: "That doesn't make sense to me now." As for the once admired A.E. Housman. he now dismisses him as a youthful "phase" but still approvingly quotes the couplet Housman wrote in his sleep...
This cynical couplet from Shakespeare's As You Like It would shock the traditionalists of Japan, who cherish in song and story the tales of true lovers pledged in death. Last year 3,000 Japanese girls between the ages of 15 and 24 killed themselves, and 1,000 of these died in suicide pacts with their lovers. Last week Japan was sentimentally creating a new legend about a new pair of star-crossed lovers...
...Lagos was best known to 19th century Britons as "the white man's grave," inspired the old couplet: "Beware and take heed of the Bight of Benin, / There few come out, where many...
...reproduced on candy boxes, postcards, cigars and suspenders. Purity leagues demanded its suppression. Postcard reproductions of the painting were forbidden the mails. Art dealers were even arrested for handling them. It became the subject of stock gags on the old Keith-Orpheum circuit, and inspired an anonymous couplet that swept the country...