Word: odes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part Two, "Understanding the Meaning of Signs" is a retrospective glance at semiotics' coming-to-consciousness. One has Jakobson's ode "Dear Claude, Cher Maitre," addressed to the father of structuralism, Levi-Strauss, and Jacques Derrida's "To Speculate-On 'Freud,"' acknowledging semiotics's intertextual as well as interdisciplinary legacy...
...with any country and western product, "Old Ways" is a few nuggets wrapped in a heap of simple-minded fluff. But Young makes no apologies. Rather, as in "Once an Angel," an insipid 6-8 love ode, and "Bound for Glory," a sweet if inconclusive ballad about a trucker committing adultery in the Canadian boondocks, the perennially angst-ridden Young has found a new peace...
...have walk-on parts for real celebrities. Erich Segal is an able practitioner of glitz lit. As a classics scholar (he has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton), he understands that readers never tire of seeing the proud and the privileged lowered by fate. Love Story, his bittersweet ode to the Ivy League, established him as the preppies' Pindar. The Class is his bid to be their Homer...
Next stop is Strasbourg, where Reagan is to deliver the keynote speech on V- E day before the European Parliament. In a lyrical ode to friendship and freedom, he plans to celebrate the survival and triumph of democracy in Western Europe after it was almost snuffed out during World War II. Strasbourg, however, is not without its own petty imbroglios. Reagan was initially invited to lunch by French President Francois Mitterrand, but when the European Parliament's president, Pierre Pflimlin, a longtime opponent of Mitterrand's Socialists, issued Reagan an official counterinvitation, a miffed Mitterrand withdrew...
...charm and wit who graced vaudeville in the pre-World War I era, silent films and later talkies, but mostly the Broadway stage, where she specialized from 1917 to 1954 in the highly varnished comedies of bad manners and good breeding (The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, 1925; Biography, 1932; Ode to Liberty, 1934) in which the characters misbehave in venomous, perfectly timed epigrams; in San Francisco...