Word: sonneteering
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Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...
...hard-won Turkish nicknames -"the desert fox" and "the greatest bloodhound." In a terse footnote in his poetry anthology. Other Men's Flowers, Wavell recalls how Lord Allenby, who had just received news of his son's death in action, quietly recited Rupert Brooke's sonnet, The Dead...
...Poet (and Roundhead) John Milton nailed this sonnet on his London door when the King's Cavaliers threatened to take the city. Last week, Richard Strauss, 80, composer of some of the most opulent and colorful dramatic music ever written (Salome, Rosenkavalier), found a sign nailed on his door: Clear out by morning. U.S. forces had arrived to take over the picturesque Bavarian resort, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where Strauss lives...
Buzzed Surrealist Editor Harris: "If fifty million monkeys with fifty million typewriters tapped for fifty million years, one of them would produce a Shakespeare sonnet. I hope MacAuley and Stewart have not produced such a phenomenon. It is not their claims of exposure but time [that] tells the story. Time will explain that a myth is sometimes greater than its creators...
...peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to the Shakespearean sonnet...