Word: iambic
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...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...
Arthur Krock, Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, ordinarily does not attempt lighthearted satire, much less write in iambic pentameter. But last week Krock tried both. Occasion: such Taft tactics as the attempt of his supporters to bar Texas delegates for Eisenhower on grounds they are really Democrats and "to discourage Democrats who are ready for political conversion." Krock prepared for keynoter MacArthur "In Metrical Praise of a Steamroller," a parody of Henry V's speech to his outnumbered followers (Shakespeare's Henry V, Act IV) before their victory at Agincourt on St. Crispin...
...Alexander Pope's famous and munificently rewarded translation (1725) in heroic couplets (iambic pentameter) was a polished poem, but no more an equivalent to Homeric Greek (dactylic hexameter) than a silver-headed cane is to a flight of arrows...