Word: doggereleer
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...repertoire is absolutely breath-taking. There are banjos and guitars sounding like railroad engines, a violin vibrating with an aching loneliness, and some of the happiest of this country's most characteristically American music. Almost miraculously the set avoids the hokier you'll-always-be-my-treasure doggerel and demonstrates the immense vitality and still-refreshing simplicity of songs far older than this generation...
...I.T.T. Cheers to Popkin. Schorseh and Blustein. Applause for BSO and Bernstein. (But maybe that one doesn't rhyme If steen now has the sound of stine) But cheers, no less, you're quite fantastic. For you, Norton Poet, a hudibrastic. (Now, Paula Cronin, your Gazette, Has hired a doggerel-laureate But stick to news, next Christmastime Leave poetasting to The Crime...
Increasingly in the 1930s, the Cantos reflected the poet's fondness for Mussolini's Fascism, his zany theories about usury and money (a modification of the labor theory of value) and finally, vicious anti-Semitic doggerel. War came. By 1941 Pound was making paid propaganda speeches in English from Rome. After the war, back in the U.S., he was charged with treason, and, starting at age 60, spent twelve years as a patient and prisoner in a mental hospital in Washington-a long punishment, whatever his offenses. His defenders claim that Pound was not mentally responsible for much...
Born. To Muhammad Ali, 30, doggerel-spouting former heavyweight boxing champ, and Belinda Ali, 22 their fourth child, first son; in Philadelphia. Name: Muhammad Eban...
...coast got a jolt one night last week when Associated Press printers broke into a bulletin on Apollo 16's blast-off from the moon with: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere . . ."The Longfellow classic then lapsed into some blue doggerel dealing with Revere's sexual prowess. It turned out that an A.P. technician in New York, using the hoary rhyme to test what he thought was an in-house circuit, had inadvertently cut into the agency's "A" wire, the conduit for top stories. A.P. fired the culprit...