Word: sonneteering
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...outset, the committee had granted Dodd the right to call his own witnesses and cross-examine hostile witnesses. His chief lawyer, John Sonnet, sought to justify the trip to Germany as a legitimate mission on behalf of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. David Martin, who had accompanied the Senator to Germany, testified that Dodd had in fact interviewed a defected Soviet agent. Martin acknowledged, however, that barely seven hours of the six-day trip were spent on the defector's case and that Dodd discussed Klein with Konrad Adenauer...
...Social Relationship." Sonnet also questioned the motives of the quartet that conspired against Dodd. It was brought out that Boyd and Mrs. Carpenter are both divorced, have had a "social relationship," were both fired on Dec. 7, 1964, and made their decision to expose Dodd later. O'Hare, 30, acknowledged that Miss Golden, 23, an attractive redhead, is his "girl friend," and that he did not commit himself fully to helping Boyd until after she had been dismissed last October. Time ran out at week's end, before Dodd, at his own request, could take the witness chair...
...believe, that people began commenting on a drummer using counter-subjects while other instruments were playing their choruses. This was because Mingus carried the beat so strongly on the bass. But with the need for a beat gone, Milford Graves could improvise constantly, as he did so successfully in "Sonnet." At one point, where "Sonnet" became very contrapuntal, I was getting that same exciting feeling you sometimes get with Baroque music: feeling three voices going in different directions--hearing the independent movement of each--and hearing a good total sound simultaneously...
...every state to regulate public morals. Speaking for the court, Justice William O. Douglas asserted that "we do not sit as a superlegislature," playing God with noxious laws. But to Douglas, himself thrice married, Connecticut's law collided with an overriding right-privacy in marriage. In a judicial sonnet, Douglas extolled marriage as "a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred . . . an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions...
...Calif., who won first prize of his essay, 'Bitter Aspic"; Roger G. '66, of Dunster House and , Neb., awarded second prize for essay on "Whittaker Chambers: The to Believe"; and Donald J. Vink of Quincy House and Holland, Mich., won third prize for his essay. "The problem of the Sonnet Cycle...