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WRITTEN in blank verse and viewing the current war purely as a struggle between a moustached Mephistopheles and British Righteousness, Alfred Noyes' new poem lacks both rhyme and reason. The stirring ballad style and pointed irony of his more famous poetry has yielded to Carlyic-like turgidity and verbosity. The former Princeton professor approaches a quotable quote only once in half a hundred pages when he condemns amongst the wave of irrationalists who prepared the intellectuals for Hitler...

Author: By E. G., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 5/27/1941 | See Source »

...Mary Had a Little Lamb." Jan LaRue, a music concentrator, graduated from Harvard last year and is now on a fellowship at Princeton, where the Concertino was written. Professor Ballantine's by now popular and well-known Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" take the familiar nursery-rhyme and cleverly bandy it about in the style of composers like Schubert, Tchaikowski, MacDowell, and Wagner...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 4/25/1941 | See Source »

...credit must be given where credit is due. Elliott Richardson, who described himself as "a lovely boy," garnered the top honors of all for the evening by guessing on all but one and a quarter of his questions. 'Poon prexy Coles Phinizy (pronounced to rhyme with Einstein) made up for his colleague, however, getting only a shade more than one and a quarter right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Brain Trust Dusts Off Lampoon in 23 to 2 Witskrieg | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

...name is pronounced (approximately) to rhyme with lawns, but most people rhyme it with bronze. Lily Pons was born 36 years ago in Cannes, in the south of France, was named Alice Joséphine by her Italian mother and French father. Papa Pons was an automobile engineer who once attempted to drive from Paris to Peiping. After nearly starving in Tibet, he was towed into China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: TRILLER IN UNIFORM | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ELECTION EXTRA. IT WAS SUBLIME. IT HAD REASON AND RHYME. AND IT CAME OUT ON TIME. WE IN CANADA TRUST AND HOPE THAT THE THIRD TERM OF F. D. R. WILL MAKE A FOUR-STAR FINAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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