Word: lear
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Eliot cast most of his Cats verses in the ricky-ticky septameter that served lyricists from Gilbert to Kipling to Lear. The challenge to Lloyd Webber was to compose a score that did not sound like outtakes from The Pirates of Penzance. Because of this metrical restriction, Lloyd Webber could not have matched the profligate melodiousness of his score for Evita if he had tried. He has not; he works mostly in the loud Europop vein, hurling his listeners up against the caterwaul...
...Norman Lear TV sitcoms have made metropolitan racial melanges like this into laugh material for a more sophisticated and cynical generation. But growing up in the real situation, in a New York neighborhood where racial barriers were as inflexible as foreign borders, the laughs did not come easy. "I felt like I was being punished, cut off," Jeffreys remembers. "It made me lonely." And scared of the sound of his stepfather's foot on the stair...
...batter them down, he seems to have known at least as much as any guild master. Nobody else in his time or culture had such a range of interests. Nor did anybody else share his depth of pessimism; for Leonardo, in his old age, was not Edison but King Lear, obsessed to the point of anguish by human insignificance and apocalyptic doom...
Information: For good general information about backpacking (gear, camp preparation, rules of the road), try Walking Softly in the Wilderness (John Hart, $6.95), The Best About Backpacking (Dennis Van Lear, $6.95), or The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra (Steve Roper...
...Edward Lear, who died in 1888, is best known to modern readers for his limericks and nonsense verse. But contemporaries knew another side of the man. Lear devoted his early career to producing detailed paintings of birds, and his pictures, collected by Susan Hyman in Edward Lear's Birds (Morrow; 96 pages; $37.95), belong on the same shelf with Audubon's. The line drawings and sketches that accompany them shed new light on the man himself. Many artists have used birds to lampoon their fellow men. The owlish Lear used them to caricature himself...