Word: doggereleer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herewith my five-year-old daughter's provincial New England version of TIME'S [May 29] Betty Grable jump-rope doggerel...
...junior year Eliot decided that he was too puny, took boxing lessons, once proudly sported a luminous shiner. He also delighted his classmates* by writing risque doggerel about a mythical King Bolo and his Queen ("that airy fairy hairy-'un, / Who led the dance on Golder's Green / With Cardinal Bessarion"). In addition to chronicling the doings of King Bolo, he contributed romantic verse to the Harvard Advocate. After Harvard, Eliot went to study in Paris for a year ("on the old man's money"), and in a Left Bank flat wrote his first significant poem...
...first plays Larry, a reminiscing tailor, then the grandfather that Larry reminisces about. Grandpa was murdered by his wife's lover, then the lover was murdered, then grandpa came briskly back to life, then his wife fell down dead, then he married a gay widow. Written mostly in doggerel, Happy As Larry deals mostly with sex. There are also snatches of nice music, and Marguerite Piazza is fun as the widow. Actor Meredith would have more charm if he tried for less...