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...yellow cow by German Expressionist Franz Marc looks like something out of a child's nursery rhyme. Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...
Enjoyed your coverage of the 87th WCTU convention [Aug. 18]. How would you pronounce the name of their president, Mrs. Fred J. Tooze? Could it possibly rhyme with booze...
...York). After the advent of Basic (British American Scientific International Commercial) English, acronyms faltered in favor of the New Deal's AAA, CCC, TVA, WPA, led by F.D.R. himself. Indeed, legend has it that the death of the National Industrial Recovery Act (ruled unconstitutional) left bereft of rhyme or reason a host of Depression-born U.S. girls named Nira...
...reached some of his major intellectual conclusions. In Osborne's portrait, however, these preoccupations are so recurrent that they dominate the texture of the play and become its central image. "Papal decretals are the devil's excretals," cries John Osborne's monk in a burst of rhyme. Throughout the evening, it seems, scarcely two minutes are permitted to go by in which Luther does not resort to some self-dramatizing scatological simile: "I'm like a ripe stool in the world's straining anus, and at any moment we're about to let each...
...with his estimate that only 18 million people, not 50 million, would be killed here in a nuclear war"). He bristles with useless information ("Curmudgeon seems to derive from the French coeur mé-chant") and daffy definitions. At one point he supplies a graceful homemade nursery rhyme...