Word: ode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course poet laureate, has contributed often to the Advocate since leaving Harvard; and his poems have sometimes been the only saving grace of otherwise subnormal issues. But this month's Advocate is so consistently excellent that it would rate a whole row of stars even without Harry's magnificent "Ode For Richard Eberhart...
...short story by Nelson Gidding at his newest best, Billy Abraham's poignant "Wind In Dry Grass" and his "Concertino," and Bowden Broadwater's "Jewelled Channing Sisters" are worthy companions to Harry Brown's masterpiece. But "The Ode For Richard Eberhart" is the outstanding writing in the issue...
Paced in musically broken stanza-sentences, the ode's complicated theme, about which many subsidiary thoughts and counter-thoughts are skillfully woven, develops with unique rhythmic clarity. Brown creates telling poetic figures, uses them interestingly, and achieves by so doing the communication of a soul-stirring idea in its emotional and intellectual entirety...
David stopped before the pub, posted his sandwich men. To an interested crowd he then read aloud an ode of his own contriving. The ode proclaimed his ardent love for Rita Harvey, barmaid...
Onlookers suggested that the ode might sound better if it were sung. David sang it. At that point Rita peeped, for one starry moment, from a window. A constable ended the show by making everybody move...