Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the irreparable decline of the imperialist West. Another character is a decayed society drone (Nancy Kelly) who recalls her frustrated attempt at suicide together with such intimate details of her sex life as the smooth tautness of her husband's scrotum. Another woman (Sudie Bond) recites the doggerel couplets of a poem called Over the Hill to the Poor house. The fourth character, a man with a pipe, lies silently in a deck chair, exhibiting what can only be called amazing restraint...
...flash on and Proprietor Barth himself ambles in and starts explaining about the machinery. Those who take their funhouses seriously may grow confused and exasperated. But readers of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy are familiar with Barth's impulses toward farce, his intellectual mobility, shaggy doggerel and merry nihilism. These people are apt to accept the clever gimmickry as one would a party favor...
...deep in debt (he owes $280,000 to his lawyers) and nearing the final round of his losing two-year bout with the U.S. Selective Service System; yet Muhammad Ali, 25, once known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, still has that golden gift of gab. His latest bit of doggerel, recited on college campuses while speaking for the cause of the Black Muslims, recounts the long journey in store for Joe Frazier, current pretender to the heavyweight crown, if ever they should fight...
Christmas "Doggerel." When Manhattan reporters complained last year about difficulties in getting access to Hubert Humphrey, Newman observed: "He is not exactly a man from whom words have to be torn against his will " When Lyndon Johnson transferred Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to the State Department, Newman noted: "Mr. Johnson does not merely announce his appointments; he congratulates himself on having made them." And about the only joy of Christmas on the tube is Newman's annual "doggerel" reading on the Today show. A stanza from last year...
...generous tribute, Robert Lowell called Jarrell "a Wordsworth with the obsessions of Lewis Carroll." He focused his poet's eye on a central moral problem of the age, which might be called the Eichmann syndrome, and expressed it in bitter doggerel...