Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some years later, another man with a Harvard connection (gloriously!),I.A. Richards, sold his first gleaming set of metrical tools. Designed primarily for processing poetry, this stunning new creation did not supplant the earlier innovation; indeed, Richards' tool set complemented the Eliot invention, and enhanced its production. Now all they need do, the scholars found, was unplug a poem, take up one or other of their finely-honed tools, twist, unscrew, and lay out the various parts of its whole, thereby finding a meaning never before revealed. (In fairness, these scholars took up their tools, put the poem back together...
...delayed penalty, called at 20:00 of the second period, led to the Crimson's second goal on a carefully set up power play...
Oranges & Oatmeal. The scene, recalling the world of Oscar Wilde, The Yellow Book and Gissing's New Grub Street, is set in London's "grey and grisly filth and fog," where the lamps seem fueled by sewer gas, and Nicholas Crabbe alone shines by the unflickering integrity of his own malice. Crabbe, "as still and alert as his eponym," making his sidelong way through the bitter brine and marine fauna of a demented imagination, is a memorable creature...
Despite his coziness, he has a keen sense of the skull beneath the skin, has set down chilling visions of approaching death. Though his most typical tone is somewhere between mockery and sentimentality, he can be fiercely satirical. During the war, when he worked at the Ministry of Information, Betjeman wrote a sardonic prayer...
...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Genu, Cyclopes and a floppy dragon conspiring against a few human types (Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kerwin Mathews), in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy set...