Word: odes
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...most famous connection between pop music and ancient megaliths is Stonehenge, the heavy - metal ode to the Druids by the spoof band Spinal Tap. But in real life, the key connection is Julian Cope, the rocker turned author and mythographer who makes his home near the 5,000 - year - old circle of standing stones at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. "I've been traveling for 13 years just looking at stones," says Cope, once the frontman for postpunk stars the Teardrop Explodes. "To understand them is to understand a way of thinking that goes back at least 6,000 years. They...
...Pretty soon after I graduated...I decided to do something in a Dr. Seuss style,” said Stossel, now an editor and cartoonist at The Atlantic Monthly. “I had recently moved to Brookline and I was missing Harvard Square so [I wrote] a reminiscing ode to Harvard Square type poem...
...capital. When I read about the regeneration, development, changes and specialties of the cities in your stories, I discovered that the people who successfully transformed the unheralded places you described used their heads to combat complacency. What a great way to use the human mind. Mamora Olusegun Victor Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria Follow the Money The ratio of eyewitnesses who support John Kerry's Vietnam War record to those who do not can only be described as overwhelming. Yet your Notebook report "Kerry in Combat: Setting the Record Straight" [Aug. 30] allowed baseless accusations to be elevated to charges worthy...
...MUSIC: k.d.'s Canadian ode...
...night concluded with “Spirit Boy” and “Spirit Girl,” the Summerbridge mascots, leading the teachers in an ode to their students...