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...evil, yet neither the use of these words nor perhaps of any other in our licentious language is so established as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers." Even pronunciation sometimes stumped him. "Lord Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat . . . Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one, the best speaker in the House of Lords, the other, the best speaker in the House of Commons, differing...
...News, then, this rhyme is addressed...
...Dialogue is just lyrics that don't rhyme." How is movie making different from one-night stands? "In a nightclub you talk when you run out of songs. In a picture you sing when you run out of words...
Those familiar with the language of University rulings will not look for rhyme in the gate decree; fortunately for the sake of this crusade, neither is the ruling blessed with reason. Arguments for the locking seem to concern a hard core of young gentlemen from the Cambridge precincts who find sanctuary within the Harvard Yard. Because their department is not always in tone with the restraint of Mower freshmen, these citizens of the area have been termed undesirable by the University's finest. Attempts were made to curb access to this haven and locking the gates...
...concert began, the reasons for the success of the work practically hammered at the listeners' ears: this kind of music sounded big and flashy without forcing the audience out of its after-dinner stupor. The chorus sang the simplest kind of melody, from mild love lyrics and nursery-rhyme interludes to rowdy drinking songs and Teutonic gallops, set against passages of syncopated whispering and of sudden, surprising fortissimos. The orchestra sometimes provided halfhearted modernities, medieval primitivisms. Its percussion section was usually busy as a steam calliope on circus day. Most of the lyrics were in vulgarized but vital Latin...