Word: limerick
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...change of lighting, designed by Ted T. Ashley ’06. Set changes are somewhat more obtrusive, due to the clunky three-piece stage, but fortunately rare. Not every joke has time to seep through, and some of the more dazzling effects (such as the large sections of limerick dialogues) are de-emphasized in favor of naturalistic delivery. However, much of the humor—particularly the political humor—proves successful, as when Carr innocently asks his butler Bennett whether the recent social revolution in Russia consists of “unaccompanied women smoking at the opera?...
...highlights suitably dry, Mall-ya-known inside his palace as "Boss"-makes for the pool. Wearing red-tinted sunglasses, diamond studs and thick gold bracelets, he wades into the cool turquoise water, lights up a cigarillo and bellows out a limerick that begins, "There once was young man from Madras, whose balls were made of brass...
...editor Louis Untermeyer thought were funny. Thus began the Nashomania Of a 10-year-old at 6910 Heyward Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While other kids sat soldered to a TV set that pummeled them with Ovaltine commercials and hair-dye ads, I curled up with Nash's couplets, quatrains, limericks and occasional jeremiads. While other boys wore their Captain Video T shirts, Howdy Doody kerchiefs and other haberdashery, I sported my Ogdennashery. I found that I could make the most obstreperous classmate behave By reciting a Nash limerick, like this laundered rewrite of the old locker-room classic about the hermit...
...long run, Limerick is right, of course, but the Lewis and Clark expedition was really a series of short runs placed end to end until it stretched all the way to the Pacific. At a time when Americans have every reason to fear what's waiting for them down the trail, from enemy armies to our capacity for misunderstanding and miscalculation, it's important to remember that what's to come is first a matter of what one does today, here, on this spot. All those footsteps will...
...everything they saw. If not for the piecemeal epic the captains scratched out while crouching on hillsides and squatting on riverbanks, we might not remember Lewis and Clark at all. "There are a lot of very terse diarists in the world who say, 'Proceeded up river and camped,'" says Limerick. "We're very lucky to be their heirs because of their fluidity of words...