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...enter, stop booing, adapt a nursery rhyme of your choice and compose a stanza on your favorite newsmaker. Fax your entry to 212-467-1010, e-mail it to Letters@time.com or mail it to TIME Notebook Contest #1, Room 2321B, Time & Life Building, New York, N.Y. 10020. Watch this space for the winning entry...
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) His invitation to read at John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inauguration only confirmed his status as the nation's most widely recognized poet. That popularity stemmed largely from his readability; his poetry seemed to speak plainly, in rhyme. But his surfaces concealed depths. The line "And miles to go before I sleep" at first seems straightforward. Repeated immediately, the words convey a trip toward death...
...sequitur; there was no continuity, but there was a rhythm. He once said that after he did 20 jokes, he could just mumble and the audience would laugh, because it was his perfect rhythm that made him funny. Whenever anybody does a joke that has no rhyme, no reason, just rhythm, you'll think of Youngman...
...rhyme scheme is brave, but ultimately too experimental...
...that British pop group Chumbawamba's Tubthumping has shot up the charts to No. 6, one has to ask: Just how far can a really silly name take you? Not so far. In fact, internal rhyme and assonance have long been a trademark of one-hit wonders. A look back suggests that Chumbawamba has just one hit left in them...