Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhyme Does Not Pay. In Ames, Iowa, George Grooms mailed in a fine for overtime parking, wrote on the envelope...
...usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern of three lines, is the runaway favorite. Harold G. Henderson, author of An Introduction to Haiku, estimates that 1,000,000 haiku are printed every year. Trains of Reverie. By Western standards, the haiku is far-out poetry. It does not rhyme. The strange nuances -even the punctuation has significance -usually get trampled in translation. The haiku does not even seem to say much; its fragile content defies explanation; its meaning must be found, not only in the haiku's simple imagery, but in the trains of reverie evoked...
...become a fad on U.S. campuses. A professor of Japanese at Columbia University before his retirement four years ago, Henderson inherited from his father a love of Japanese art and literature, nourished by several long visits to the country. Existing haiku translations dismayed him. Most of his 375 translations rhyme, on the very reasonable premise that Japanese haiku might rhyme too but for the limitations of a language in which all words end in n or a vowel...
...Wordsworths, Byron, Shelley, Keats) that Poe's "ghoul-haunted" imagination has contemporary validity. For all its outmoded idiom (castles, princesses, etc.) Poe's death-obsessed verse speaks true today. In this admirable biography, Author Winwar lets a hundred well-informed witnesses speak for themselves and lets Poe rhyme where reason does not run. He wrote...
...jest at the expense of Dr. Castro's scattered forces, the Times waxed serious. Having already praised Batista's government for its benevolent despotism, it called the insurgent plot "forlorn and suicidal." Thoroughly enjoying itself, in a rare burst of poetry the Times added: "More sophisticated nations see little rhyme or reason for these...