Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less exciting stretches, he passes the time by thinking up doggerel (sample lines: "Roads have a beginning/ Say, don't we all?/ Some roads are long, some people are tall/ ... All roads come to an end/ And the same applies to us, my friend"). He has also written a song entitled Superskater, which he hopes to sell to a country-music producer. He may not get a golden record, but he is already assured of some distinction. He is a cinch to make his second entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, and will donate his skates...
...today is London. But Leader Moses David stays as elusive as Howard Hughes, making contact with the members only in his weekly epistles called "Mo Letters" and through what might be described as fundamentalist pornography. Berg's poem Mountin' Maid, for instance, is 300 lines of awful doggerel urging women to bare their breasts. Sample line: Can't we leave those summits bare Without all that underwear...
...make a point. The morning after the last election, Osgood assembled several victory speeches to demonstrate how similar such addresses are regardless of candidate and locale. When he does choose to cover a straight story, like an election, he applies a twist. Sometimes he does a show in doggerel, as when Speaker Carl Albert declined Spiro Agnew's request for a House investigation into the charges against him. Concluded Osgood: "You accuse me of just doing nothing/ It's not true, as a matter of fact/ I am far, far beyond doing nothing/ I am boldly refusing...
...Jesuit for the first time, it's like the mating dance of the crabs?trying to find out if the other crab is male or female." There are Jesuits young and old all across the spectrum of opinion. Observed Catholic Journalist John Cogley in an accurate bit of doggerel in the Jesuit weekly America: "There are Jesuits left and Jesuits right/ A pro and con for most any fight/ So wherever you stand, you stand not alone:/ Every little movement has a Jebbie of its own." It is an odd position, almost a public embarrassment, for an order of such...
...Soldier's Tale, Stravinsky began to take music away from the academicians, the esthetes, and the rapturous-on-demand, and to give it back to the people. The plot, which C.F. Ramuz set down in inspired doggerel, is a folk tale: a soldier sells his fiddle to the devil, and returns home to find that years have passed and everyone has forgotten him. He tricks the devil, cures a princess, and marries her, but the devil warns him not to try to go back to his native village. He tries anyway. The return of music to the people doesn...