Word: ei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What made Lorca change from his popular combinations of the old romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that...
...strong-minded Dan Freeman, her summer-stock leading man. Dan led Diana to a children's playground, murmured: "Come on, baby, sit in the swing . . . You're a sick girl. Diana . . . You are going to get to God." Instead. Diana found Dan massaging her back, crooning gently: "Ei-lu-lu, Bab-en-u. Ei-lu-lu-lu-lu. Baby"-an old lullaby his mother used to sing...
...years, Mamie Eisenhower, surrounded by the Eisenhower clan, romped through her 60th birthday party at the White House. She happily browsed through a welter of gifts -cocktail napkins, stockings, a pair of earbobs from her namesake niece Mamie, a lifesize, schoolgirlish portrait of herself from the National Citizens for Ei senhower-Nixon. As messages poured in, Mamie Eisenhower's personal secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, bragged: "She's getting more mail than the President today!" Asked how she felt about spending another four years in the White House, Mamie, while posing for pictures in the library, said...
...atomic age. Uranium mining operations, now the main support of hundreds of Navajos, had put a welcome $300,000 into the coffers of the tribal council in the last fiscal year. Up among the sacred Lukachukai Mountains, however, the shamans had heard the disturbed voices of the Ye-ei, the souls of the mountains, who were angered because the miners had disturbed the dwellings of the Talking God and his brother, the Calling God. Last week, after a worried council, the medicine men announced their decision. At the time of the next full moon, the Navajos of the Lukachukai region...
...gave the students a bit of advice for the future. Some of his tips: "There is great wealth of scientific and technical knowledge waiting to be used . . . Forces of prosperity are know-how and the will to work." He ended his speech with the college motto: "Cweddw crefft heb ei dawn" (Technical skill is sterile without inspiration...