Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genre. He has, moreover, rehearsed a certain formalism just as Coleridge corrected Wordsworth's mistaken nations about diction: besides the 'heavy accent and the slowness' he prefers, he has elsewhere explained that it is easier to write poetry than prose which must be created since certain formulae, such as rhythm, rhyme, etc., are not made available, a priori, to the prose stylist...
Citation, whose stride is around 21 ft, was running with his usual superb rhythm and his air of immense power cautiously controlled. Then in the stretch the phantoms faded and there was only Citation striding forcefully down the center of the track. His time was 1:59 1/5 for the 1 3/16 miles, with nobody pressing...
...much-misunderstood "rhythm system," the true position of the Catholic Church is not one of "approval" but of tolerance. While condemning all unnatural devices, the Church withholds judgement on this natural means. She neither approves nor condemns it, but does caution that justification for its employment must be strong indeed...
...aspect of the birth control controversy is amazingly inconsistent. We are told that "Birth control is against God's Law," yet the majority of Protestants and Jewish leaders approve of the proper use of contraception, while the Catholic Church approves of he "Rhythm" or "Legitimate Birth Control." The great majority of married couples in Massachusetts, both Catholic and non-Catholic, practice birth control...
Summer and Smoke has one very genuine virtue: Margaret Phillips' performance as Alma. Condemned to talk like a book throughout, Miss Phillips reveals an unfailing ear for rhythm, an unfaltering instinct for character...