Word: odes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times's editorial policy continues to reflect the same cosmic concerns as before the strike. WHITHER DEÉTENTE? asks the lead editorial, which never bothers to answer. The editorial page includes the inevitable ode to nature's awesome wonders, titled AUTUMN'S FALL ("Now does the deep-throated maple hush its cheery warble ..."). On the Op-Ed page, Columnist James Rest writes from Balkh, Asia Minor (" 'How are you, Scotty?' asked the Khan, gnawing on a Kurd...
Desmond Skirrow (1924-76) uses but twelve well-chosen words in Ode on a Grecian Urn summarized...
...Gimme Some Good Times" is a bright, youthful rock piece that cranks along into "Dirt," a rambling, thumping twangy ode of anger to one "pig of a person--cheap uptown dirt"; cries from a relationship run amok...
DIED. Nicolas Nabokov, 74, composer, author and witty raconteur who hobnobbed with the top musicians of his generation; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Russian-born cousin of the late novelist Vladimir Nabokov, he got mixed reviews from critics for his flashy ballet scores (Don Quixote, Ode). But he won universal acclaim from the arts world as an organizer of international music festivals in Rome, Tokyo and Paris during the 1950s and early '60s. Nabokov also had a career as an urbane social chronicler (Old Friends and New Music, Bagazh...
...raunchy comic relief there is Lavra (Lillian Evans), the self-styled former "playgirl of Moscow" from whom a few generous swigs of vodka can elicit a tipsy ode to the joys of sex. Her opposite number is prim, spartan Iva (Lenore Har ris), a dance-exercise buff who seems to revel in single blessedness until, in a passionate and poignant outburst, she reveals its lonely curse...