Word: rhyming
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...Pentagon spokesman accounts for the name thus: "It sounded catchy to somebody in the Joint Chiefs. It has no rhyme or reason...
...Bacharach song, anything can happen. Listening to the original cast album (United Artists), one is consistently caught off guard by lyrics that defy normal rhyme schemes and music that is sensitive to the slightest lyrical change of heart...
NEITHER doubletalk nor a long-lost quote from Lewis Carroll, that strange verse is really an old familiar nursery rhyme. Its translation, and the history of its colorful but dying language, is reported this week by Los Angeles Correspondent Timothy Tyler. See THE NATION: "Harpin' Boont in Boonville...
...then one thinks of Wilbur, translating with near-perfection the plays of Moliere in their original rhyme and metre (Tartuffe and The Misanthrope), imitating Villon and odd old Provencal poets in a transcription of literary history, cajoling the past into colloquial forms. If anything, it is remembering forgotten languages, not forgetting the few that we so awkwardly remember...
...Rhyme and Reason...