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Moynahan acknowledged that he had beenconducting a contest the day before his arrest,passing out balloons to passersby who couldidentify lines from Keats' "Ode on a Grecian...
...fail to be inspired by lines like "If you don't try, you can't fail" or "Your thoughts can't soar if you think like a turkey." Certainly it is not possible to resist the wit behind such zingers as "apartment hunting...scouring for a pad" or "Shakespeare ode much to publishers," And even the greatest literature cannot match such insights into the humanity as "Laughter is the shock absorber of life's blows" or "No one is a failure who is enjoying life...
There was Sir Cloudesley Shovel, "The Cobbler'sBoy Who Became an Admiral"; William Carey, "TheShoemaker who Translated the Bible into Bengaliand Hindostani"; Samuel Drew, "The MetaphysicalShoemaker." John Greenleaf Whittier began as ashoemaker's apprentice and honored the occupationwith his ode, "To Shoemakers," not one of his moredistinguished works. ("Ho! workers of the oldtime, styled/The Gentle Craft of Leather!/ Youngbrothers of the ancient guild,/ Stand forth oncemore together...
...hours and leaving a foot of the white stuff on Val d'Isere. The next day, however, dawned guiltless again. The Chinese delegation drank champagne and sang such favorites as Salute the World to ring in the Year of the Monkey. Visitors looked forward to hearing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, which would accompany every Unified Team gold. And the World Sugar Research Conference was taking place in the same mountains -- a non-Olympic event, to be sure, but one that captured perfectly the meaning of the Games: research and hard work in the service of sweetness...
...Whiplash Liquor" celebrates the wild, weekend parties of high school. In this ode to "rock n'roll in the cul-de-sac," Ugly Kid Joe also offers a light hearted explanation of just who they really are: "Suburban white alcoholic trash/We ain't glam and we ain't thrash/We're victims of a society/That fucks with me about sobriety...