Word: iambic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot relentlessly sees to it that, after years of bachelor living, Eliot is properly fed. Friends crack that he rhythmically carves a roast "in iambic pentameter-five stresses to each slice...
...meaning (a) With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, b) When I consider how my light is spent, c) When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw), a student must show a high degree of literary perception. Each line has ten syllables, and each is in iambic pentameter. But only b makes little attempt to convey meaning through the sound of the words used...
...California boyhood and was memorable for the sharply played vignettes of adolescence by Actors Sal Mineo and Pat De Simone. Then Composer Leonard Bernstein took over for a splendidly lucid primer on the world of jazz. Pointing out that blues are based on a rhymed couplet in iambic pentameter with the first line repeated, Bernstein developed a lowdown blues song from Shakespeare.* Bernstein looks like a young Burgess Meredith, speaks with extraordinary clarity and intelligence and is always able to demonstrate precisely what he is talking about...
Librettist Jeremy Gury preserved the 13 stanzas of iambic heptameter intact, but also worked up a good deal of added story business besides two more stanzas. After a scene outside the Mudville ball park, in which he discloses a few previously unrevealed facts (Casey was a left-handed rightfielder with a batting average of .564), he takes the audience to a spot somewhere back of shortstop and puts the poetry into the mouth of a narrator...
...After the play," says William Alfred, a Teaching Fellow in English, "some people felt that they could talk to me only about iambic pentameter, really the most boring thing." The play, Agammenon, produced as a dramatic reading at Sanders Theatre just two weeks ago, had its birth in a translation which Alfred made at Brooklyn College in 1948. "It was a loose, double-jointed piece but both Brooklyn and Hunter put on the first two acts--in turtle-neck sweaters and bobby socks." Then in Archibald MacLeish's writing course Sb, Alfred rewrote his academic work as a play, taking...