Word: rimes
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...single rime, I hope to avoid the further wrath of my literary superiors. If this course of action meets with Mr. Sokolov's approval, might I respectfully suggest as well that villanelles were written long before that of Jean Passerat in 1006, from which the present form is derived, and that the art of poetry is a trifle more capacious than his rules? Richard Sommer Teaching Fellow in English
Fearless and teal, pious and pitying, cunning and courteous, he was a paragon of chivalry and the mold of Spanish manhood. He became a legend in his lifetime, and some 40 years after his death in 1099 he was celebrated in El Poema de Mio Cid-a vast rambling rime that became the national epic-as the Lancelot of Spain and something more, as a sort of Round Table...
...intention of Liquidating a large colony of albatrosses on Midway Island, allegedly a hazard to aircraft. A public meeting is scheduled on the matter at The American Museum of Natural Science in New York on Tuesday, October 20. One naturalist has already suggested that the admiralty read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to find out what happens to people who kill albatrosses. No comment has yet been heard from the birds themselves. (New York Times, 10/16/59...
...thought of music critics by Reporter Martin Agronsky on NBC-TV's Look Here show, Bernstein replied: "I have come to take them not very seriously any more. When you do get mad at a critic is when he is a self-advertised authority and at the same rime proceeds to display ignorance, making mistakes, showing he doesn't have ears to hear with...
...spiderweb gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will...