Word: limericking
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...western's long hiatus has also given the format new room to roam. Patricia Limerick, a professor at the University of Colorado and a leading revisionist historian, sees the end of the cold war as liberating. "We don't have to create an image and an ideology of ourselves as heroic expanders of the frontier and innocents who fight evil," she says. "All of that cold war fervor that drove the old westerns has lifted, so you can do more complex and interesting westerns." At a time when gritty urban realism and literal-minded docudramas hold sway, westerns...
...male student wearing a yellow robe entered the dining room of Upstairs at the Pudding, kneeled before the guest speaker who was addressing the group and read a "satiric, prurient limerick," according to Signet member Peter C. Nohrnberg...
According to Jennifer Rubell '93, president of the Signet Society, the "limerick" contained references to anal...
...purest, slimiest form (see above), plagiarism is basically a bad thing. This kind of plagiarism entails dishonesty, thievery and stupidity--all things of which I am generally not fond. I copied an "original" limerick about a camel straight out of a children's poetry book in Mrs. Rubin's third grade class, and I'm still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline...
...PATRICIA LIMERICK, HISTORIAN, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER