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Powell was given a service with all the trimmings. After reading the parable of the rich fool, Wheat followed up with a nursery rhyme, The Crooked Man. Wheat reviewed Powell's career: twice voted the state's outstanding legislator, named Man of the Year by veterans' groups. He recalled how Powell's secretary, affectionately known as "Little Bit," accompanied the old pol on his last trip and tried, unsuccessfully, to spirit away the shoeboxes before authorities discovered them. Wheat wound up with a favorite Powell quote:"There's only one thing worse than a defeated...
...blast-off from the moon with: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere . . ."The Longfellow classic then lapsed into some blue doggerel dealing with Revere's sexual prowess. It turned out that an A.P. technician in New York, using the hoary rhyme to test what he thought was an in-house circuit, had inadvertently cut into the agency's "A" wire, the conduit for top stories. A.P. fired the culprit and sent out an urgent "disregard" order-in prose...
...children is the most revealing part of his method. Children's poetry, he emphasizes, cannot be poetry if tailored to adult expectations. Encouragement and inspiration are all-important, not merely praise or exposure to poetry of any sort, but the removal of barriers to writing like an insistence on rhyme or the use of complex technical terms, exposure to condescending "poetry for children" or to adult poetry whose images are too crafted to the child-like. All the children in Koch's classes had their poetry read aloud anonymously: they were praise, encourage, and urged to develop their thoughts further...
Ravel's mistakes were often egregious. He allowed himself to be caught up in extravagant romanticism, in over-orchestrating, in lush overstatement where simple instrumentation would have sufficed. But, like the little girl in the Mother Goose rhyme, when he was good, he was very, very good...
...unforced, and in itself worth hearing. The actor has to infuse his couples with a skillful variation of tone and inflection to bring this off. When he is successful, the dialogue attains the bellylaugh level and is made all the more funny with the extra wallop of an unexpected rhyme. When he falls, the dialogue lapses into dry monotony which is about as pleasurable to the audience as chewing on sand...