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...with jugglers and parti-colored harlequins who set the screen to flailing like a crazy quilt in a squall. Enter the mime again, this time with bells on his ankles, wrists and cap, to do a little foot-about that is charmingly reminiscent of the lady in the nursery rhyme who has music wherever she goes, and then a gay bacchanal as the villagers join...
...policy in the Middle East." He quoted Eisenhower as saying at the time of his second-term announcement that some of the presidential work "can now be done by my close associates as well as by myself." Said Adlai: "I could not help but think of that little rhyme: 'This would not be sinister if we had a Prime Minister...
...students would get most of them correct, even giving them hints. For example, he would use larger or colored numbers in the more difficult problems. As the student advanced, the differences between the distinctions would become less and less. In a language, he says he might give words that rhyme to help in translation. "They might hit the right answer for the wrong reason, but eventually they would learn the right reason, too." Far from fearing the machine, Skinner says, "the children love it. It gives them no anxieties...
...such conditions, as the President stated them, sound more like the rules of governing a kingdom or a corporation. They are not the rules for governing a democracy ... I couldn't help thinking of the little rhyme, 'This wouldn't be sinister, if we had a Prime Minister...
...poetry in this issue is not all obscure. John Hollander's songs, sung by a picaresque hero called Dick Dongworth, are the most notable contribution. Hollander combines a slight air of humor and intense irony to good effect. He varies his rhyme scheme to fit the special tone of each poem, and his rhythm fails only at one point in the last song. Less monumental, but equally effective, is "In Rainwoods," written by an anonymous poet, blasphemously dubbed Sam Hall. The rainwoods contain soft red leopards and a girl and a great sense of wonder...