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...other hand, does not prevent what Critic Erich Auerbach described as "artful and meticulous composition unequaled in the whole of literature." The last canto of I'Inferno, for instance, descends to the depths of despair through a brilliant cacophony of rhymes that snarl, snigger, squeak, squitter, screech like a sackful of demented imps. And the structure of the entire poem is a miracle of symmetry; all its canticles are consciously articulated in a great Golden Section, an ancient system of proportion in which the nature of God and the structure of the human soul are reconciled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT, in the persons of a bookstore clerk (Alan Alda) and a prostitute (Diana Sands), hoot and screech at each other until they discover that they have something uncommonly common in common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

Ford's passenger car production is al ready 75% below capacity and unless the walkout ends this week, said President Arjay Miller, the nation's fourth biggest company will screech to a com plete stop. The U.A.W. aggravated the problem by also striking Mack Trucks and White Motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: A Common Thread of Trouble | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...toning it down from a right-wing screech to a more moderate sound. Indeed, at one time Murphy was closely associated with the superpatriotic California crusade of Dr. Fred Schwarz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Just Call Him Senator | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Plumes & Horns. The little buzzers are In; Vogue has started photographing Beautiful People sporting the latest screech in two-wheeled chic. But there is one jarring note: the unesthetic crash helmet, with its implications of imminent catastrophe. Perhaps plumes would help-or, for the aggressive male on the higher-powered model, Viking horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Two-Wheeled Chic | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

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