Word: lingerer
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Lives sometimes focus not on a major triumph, but on a major disappointment. Raymond Moley, now 80, has chosen to linger in a departed yesterday that let him down...
...TIME'S critic must know that Herbert Marshall's translation (especially his "dud rhymes -'trees-industries,' 'linger-lingo,' 'see-literacy' ") is a successful attempt to re-create the Russian poet's technique. While this type of rhyme is not even considered rhyme in our English tradition, Russians make use of it. And, especially with Yevtushenko and other modern poets, it is such a special feature that it cannot be ignored in the translation of their poems. Rhymes such as "micropore-Metro-pole" and "Perlovke-perlone" are duds directly from Yevgeny himself...
...electricity of Yevtushenko's performances, the new collection of his poems will have to suffice. It will be something of a disappointment. Yevtushenko is badly served by his translator, Herbert Marshall, professor of communications at Southern Illinois University. The book abounds with atrocities and dud rhymes-"trees-industries," "linger-lingo," "see-literacy" -that are enough to destroy any kind of communication...
...which tells of the deep friendship between a testy old Spanish fisherman and an Albanian sailor, neither of whom ever learns to speak the other's language. In Life Is an Operetta, Ustinov uses his expertise to write a deceptively simple account of a Hungarian singer who will linger in memory as the quintessential Hungarian female on the make...
Bunnies in London's Playboy Club are being fired for loafing. Construction workers have been known to take breaks to play soccer in the street. Automobile sheet-metal stampers linger in their locker room calculating the football pools, while the foreman hopefully chants, "Back to the benches, mates." The title of Peter Sellers' 1959 film, I'm All Right, Jack, satirizing the idleness in "the farewell state," has become part of England's language, summing up all the nation's cosseted, truculent, archaic featherbedding...