Word: doggerel
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...insisted that Negro dialect shows all the characteristics of cultural deprivation, Stewart and his fellow investigators argue that linguistically it is as rich and diverse as standard spoken English. Many white Americans were astonished when Muhammed Ali, who earned reams of sports-page attention with his endless flow of doggerel, flunked an Army intelligence test. Psychologist Stephen Baratz, of the National Institute of Mental Health, insists that there was really nothing particularly surprising about his jab at poesy: Negro children usually start playing improvisational rhyming games shortly after they learn to talk...
Wiggle Watching. Hanoi was not sure that Lodge would be any more pliable than Averell Harriman-or any less. Reacting with scorn, North Viet Nam's army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan broke out in doggerel: "Which of the two has the more weathered skin,/ The man going out or the man coming in?" To Quan Doi, Lodge is "doomed to follow in the footsteps/Of Nixon the elephant/And feed on his leavings...
...that in the much quoted line, "These fragments I have shored against my ruin," the words "shored against" originally read "spelt into." This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder. "Dogaral" (doggerel), noted Ezra on one passage, and Eliot humbly struck the offending words from his text. But Eliot sometimes balked. Ezra had condemned Eliot's description of a nightingale's "inviolable voice" as "too purty" (pretty), but Eliot seems to have thought that no adjective could be too "purty...
...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...
...album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls his own" and "Lyndon loves Mao," plus a bit of familiar bathroom doggerel...