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...Arkansas' state senate in the 1870s, according to legend, Democrat James K. Jones thundered a reply to a proposal to change the pronunciation of his state to make it rhyme with Kansas. "Change the name of Arkansas?" boomed he. "Never!" No serious attempt has been made since then to tinker with the name of Arkansas; but one man has tried-with notable success-to change its face. He is a bustling Baptist named C. (for Coulter) Hamilton Moses, chairman of Arkansas Power & Light Co., who has been called the "Billy Sunday of Business." In the past ten years, Industrial...
Local academicians attribute the rhyme to an outbreak of deviationism by several young instructors in a major social science department...
...Eleven is a magnificent poem about an unassuming incident--a boy going to rest in a barn before lunch--which takes on many subtle meanings. The expression is low-power and the structure is well suited to the tone. As a matter of fact, MacLeish rarely forces words to rhyme just for the sake of rhyme. Even while he experiments with different forms, his poetry is never sacrificed to structure. At times he may be captured by the music of words or a pleasant rhythm which jumps out of context; but that is a vice common to all poets...
...Diddle-Diddle (Phil Harris and the Bell Sisters; Victor). Basso-Crooner Harris goes back to his childhood here, but the tune is lively and the near nursery-rhyme lyrics pleasant...
...pudgy fingers. There is no reason to expect that that chancy glance will be in any sense reassuring.-For no one in the Western world can honestly envision a dinner table at which it would be a pleasure to sit down with Georgy Malenkov. Even the nursery-rhyme liberals have given up hope in such fairy tales. If that metaphorical meeting ever does take place, Malenkov's fellow diners will have to come equipped with very long spoons...