Word: quatrain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poem in a recent issue of the New Statesman contains the quatrain: Death shares the news with Françoise Hardy's/ Sex life, Lady Antonio's parties,/ Mr. Wilson's thousand days,/ Plots of the world's most famous plays...
...copy features a rerun double-bill. Steve Kaplan '68 treats "boy meets girls" scenes à la Stanley Kramer, DeMille, Bergman, and Busby Berkelye. The Berkeley pair (Sally and Dan) dance into the sunset doing something called The Balumbo, containing for my money at least one great quatrain...
...much for his 19 competent whodunits (under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake) as for his poetry, became Britain's 18th poet laureate. And who knows? The pen of a still vigorous, thoughtful contemporary could turn a new page in Britain's national poetry-or scratch its final, deadening quatrain. The rangy, resonant-voiced Day-Lewis (who has only lately begun hyphenating his two surnames), seemed determined to broaden the scope of his office...
...what the modern sensibility is, Connolly finds its essence in a quatrain of Baudelaire, as translated by Robert Lowell...
...their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...