Word: ode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard, Horatio was the smallest man (5 ft. 2) in the class of 1852, ranked eighth in his studies and wrote the class ode. As a senior, Horatio noted in his diary: "Am reading Moby Dick, and find it exciting. What a thrilling life the literary must be! ... Would it be desirable for me to take up writing as a life work? The satisfaction resulting from a beautiful story must be inspiring-a story that rouses readers to a new sense of the fine things of life." From that moment his ambition was fixed: he would write the great American...
Ollie Reeves, poet laureate of the Atlanta Constitution, recently broadcast this ode to a plant whose exploits are becoming the talk of the South. Kudzu (rhymes with good zoo) is a vine which, say Arkansans, grows so fast that men drop kudzu roots into the ground and run. It has been known to grow as much as twelve inches in a single day, as much as 100 feet in a season...
...recent statement in LIFE that, as a first step to world press freedom, preferential transmission rates should be abolished. The Economist observed: "Mr. Cooper, like most big-business executives, experiences a peculiar moral glow in finding that his idea of freedom coincides with his commercial advantage. In his ode to liberty, there is no suggestion that when all barriers are down the huge financial resources of the American agences might enable them to dominate the world. His desire to prevent another Goebbels from poisoning the wells will be universally applauded, but democracy does not necessarily mean making the whole world...
...week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
...Ode to a Great...