Word: sonneteering
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Perhaps the most telling critique came from George K. Moriarty, telegraph editor of the Hartford Times (circ. 116,012), who wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most newspapers cram the major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that...
...Millay. He has hutzpa all right, but always with more than a grain of justification. "Nobody," he once announced, "can handle the sonnet form like me and Millay"?but he could point to some entirely respectable poetry he had written in spare moments. He pronounces foreign words with elaborate accuracy?but it is not just an affectation, for he speaks five foreign languages (German, French, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew). He loves to give advice to experts on their own specialty? theater technicians on lighting, or classicists on Latin?but he has an impressive body of general information and education...
...about a devout Roman Catholic practising Christian Science somehow lacks interest. The Advocate's fragments of Professor Whitman's translation of The Alcestis, with their alliteration and charming metre, seem very well done. Aside from this, however, this issue's poetry is unexciting. Paul Flanigan has written a "pretty" sonnet, expressing Keatsian sentiments with rather abstract words. There is also another of Andre Gregory's hoaxes. This one is about a sea-walnut. John Ratte's cover is, as usual, architectural...
Answer: Shakespeare's sonnet, XXIX...
BURIAL SERVICE: "In saying our last farewell to John Stevens, we shall read a sonnet by George Santayana, who once wrote: 'The length of things is vanity; only their height is joy.' From Santayana...