Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adding two & two the nation's press and politicos tried to find rhyme & reason in primaries throughout the country, in order to find aid & comfort for November elections. But the result was a confused equation...
...been the butcher boy. Ask the Poles about me, or the French saboteurs, or the Dutch and the Belgians and the Norwegians. We've shot or hanged more than 400,000, not counting all who die in tue concentration camps. There's a rhyme in Germany which goes: 'Himmler der Heuchler, Heydrich der Henker' which means 'Himmler the Hypocrite, Heydrich the Hangman.' The countries we've conquered will remember me, the swine...
...General did not surrender within five days. He did not. It is a misfortune that conquered Europe cannot learn detail by detail the effective methods used by the gaunt, hard, bronzed fighter on TIME'S cover (painted by one of his compatriots, Vuch Vuchin-ich-called Vuch, to rhyme with juke). But Draja Mihailovich is completely cut off from the democracies' press, hemmed in by the Axis forces in Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and Greece. His only direct contact with the world beyond has been through smugglers and a mobile radio transmitter which he concealed somewhere...
Slim as it is, the volume appears padded. The lyrics, excepting an occasional piece like "Come In" or "A Young Wretch," seem minor, and occasionally trite. Emphasizing the short line and two-syllable rhyme, poems like "A Considerable Speck" are characterized by occasional flashes of epigrammatic brilliance which, though causing a quick chortle, tend to destroy poetic unity and completeness. In extended form these epigrams frequently become rapid-fire social commentary, and here Frost seems beyond his depth. Knowing the farms and people of New England, he is lost when he strays into the maze of an international industrial society...
Julian Huxley, dull scientist brother of sprightly Novelist Aldous, was reminded last week of the old nursery rhyme, "While the cat's away the mice will play." His Government-sponsored lecture tour of the U.S. finished, Scientist Huxley was awaiting a ship to take him back to England when word came that he had been fired as director of the London...