Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glad to get away from their wives and into the saloon. A strict art form, the limerick is the special province of the literate, oldfashioned, word-oriented man. Only those who respect and understand the magic of words can enjoy the holiday from sense in the limerick, where the rhyme as often as not dictates the sense...
...bucket, Nantucket. This innocent rhyme was instantly followed by innumerable sub-wits who varied the towns (Pawtucket, Manhasset), or thought that they could find a better last line. It is probably one or another coarse version of this that most lim erick fanciers remember...
...Rhyme it with Noel...
Bradley Burg's score is very much a saving-grace, with its unswervingly melodic line and its sweet harmonies. Mayer's lyrics show signs of being dashed off, except for the last, very beautiful one, and the lyricist doesn't seem to be able to make a rhyme without using enjambement, a device which should always be used very sparingly. The score keeps the show flowing when the accumulation of gag-lines that have fallen flat start to clog...
...reader of Lowell will recognize much familiar thematic material: New England, the sea, war, religious allusions, classical references, and the effect of technology in the large city. There are quite specific reminiscences (Compare "Forth of July" with "The Mills of the Kavanaughs," for example). Mr.Lowell's mastery of rhyme seems as vigorous as it was twenty years ago in Lord Weary's Castle; indeed, the collections in that book entitled "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket: and "In Memory of Arthur Winslow" may be profitably compared with "Near the Ocean" if the reader has the inclination. Lowell seems most natural, lucid...