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...portions of his translation of Beowulf or an impromptu reading of probably his most famous poem, "Digging," meeting with thunderous applause. Perhaps Irish consul general Conor O'Riordan said it best when he said, "Seamus Heaney has spoken eloquently about a time in the future when poetry and history, rhyme and peace becomes a reality...
...Downfall of Civilization" lecture was especiallypopular, and "was prompted by our father'sencounters with air conditioning, television, popart or Mother's Day and Father's Day." Her fatherwas not against all fun--Lindbergh jubilantlytells of her father giving her a piggy-back rideto the rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and of lettingher "on very brief and special occasions" braid "askinny gray pigtail that hung lopsidedly over hisear." Nonetheless it was Anne Morrow Lindbergh whoserved as the emotional mainstay for her children...
...feel you. No Limit ads must get clowned: flow in rhyme delivery must get pushed; intelligent lyrics must be praised in the very lyrics--and if you can explain why all this is imperative, even better. So thank you, oh cosmic structure of things, for letting Rawkus Records exist and publicize a group like Black Star so effectively. Thank you, Mos Def and Kweli, for letting us know that "life without thought is just death in disguise;" and that even battle rhymes like "you stoppin us? that's just preposterous like an androgenous mysoginist" can equip us against the extinction...
...songs so glamorous and well-arranged it was easy to ignore their startling edges of regret and emotional maturity. Discovering his work last year for the first time, I found myself caught up in the sensitivity of his songs, which could pack an lifetime of hurt into a flip rhyme and an abrupt meter change. Only Bacharach, for instance, could interpose the cheerful mood of "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" with its underlying theme of disillusionment and the unspoken death of big dreams; while the arrangement glistens with organ bursts and the light trace of strings...
...WINNER! About 500 people accepted our challenge two weeks ago to write a parody of a nursery rhyme that dealt with a subject in the news. In a close competition, Cheryl Georgeson of Lincoln, Neb., prevailed, and will collect a coveted Notebook T shirt. Her entry parodied "Mary Had a Little Lamb...