Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently on orders from an official representing the all-powerful ideological section of the Central Committee. It is anybody's guess when Look Out for Your Faces will be performed again in Russia. Last week Moscow was buzzing with speculation on which of the show's skits, poems and songs had offended the Central Committee. Among the possibilities: > In one skit, performers hold up letters spelling out A luna kamila, a palindrome meaning "The moon has vanished." An official, hypersensitive about the Soviet failure to get a man on the moon first, might have seen this...
...speak this morning as we pause to honor Christopher Columbus, the admiral of the ocean sea, and the accomplishments and contributions of Americans of Italian descent to our nation, the positive benefits of those who followed Columbus to America. It was best to begin this presentation with that famous poem for it emphasizes the theme that will run through this entire speech this morning-one of perseverance...
...opened with a poem and I think I'll close with a few lines of sing-song verse I have written myself. I hope the message comes through...
...even the closest scrutiny may leave us cold. Something as small as a stuffed nose may keep us from enjoying a trip to the museum. For irrelevant reasons, the impact of a whole gallery of paintings may elude us. We can envision ourselves, under certain circumstances, mistaking a bad poem for a much better one. Yet I doubt sincerely whether the most severe stultification of the senses would prevent one from protesting an indisputably bad meal...
...named landfill project that grows by 7,800 tons of waste a day. The city is trying to reduce its overhanging pall of smog by persuading homeowners and industrialists to switch from coal to fuel oil (at a cost of increased carbon monoxide). But a 15th century samurai's poem boasting that the city "commands a view of soaring Fuji" is now a wry joke...