Word: odes
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...Ode...
...Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College, Ferry is an esteemed scholar and poet. Critics have often noted his ability to bring the poetry he is translating—whether an ode of Horace, an eclogue of Virgil or a passage from Gilgamesh—into remarkably fresh and immediate English idiom...
...still able to get out his message, though, through interviews and videotapes produced for his supporters. A tape of his son's wedding last January features bin Laden reading an ode he'd written to the bombing by his supporters of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, an attack that killed 17 service members. "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles," he sang. "If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would have been filled with...
...chart, you tell us that it's "time to forgive" them for their party anthem Shout [PEOPLE, Aug. 27]. Is forgiveness required for the sin of producing one of the most justifiably popular, ebullient and long-lived hits of the '60s? Should we forgive Beethoven for his Ode to Joy? SALLY FRENKEL New York City...
...most requested track at countless radio stations around the country. Afroman--actually Joseph Foreman, 27--admits to smoking illegal substances occasionally. "But you know," he says, "my character, Afroman, he really does." Of course, it's a novelty hit and performance art. Afroman had no idea his ode would be so successful, and he displays an endearing concern for parental sensitivities. "You know what, dude? I made this tape for all my homeboys. I didn't think I'd be talking to TIME magazine. I'm a little worried about Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. I don't want...