Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It happens all the time. An ex-school teacher, nice fellow, intellectual and all that, turns around and knocks out a song and it becomes a big hit. The former teacher in this case is an Englishman named Geoff Stevens, 32, who even sang along in the recording, he says...
and caps its evocation of Stevens a few lines later by mentioning "A jar in wilderness upon a hill." Unfortunately Mr. Kaitz, whatever his intent, has failed to echo Steven's typically smooth movement, so different from the ragged rhythms above. Nor could these strings of monosyllables occur in his...
David Rockwood's "Simon of Rhodesia" is rambling, exuberant, and fun. If there's more to it than meets the eye, I don't think we should look for it: if mention of a "blue guitar" and a Prufrock spoof (substituting "Henry Miller-O" for "Michelangelo") are supposed to plunge...
An untitled poem by Merrill Kaitz makes quite explicit use of Stevens, though it's not clear whether as a model or as an object of satire. The poem begins:
THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Ronny Howard, the mop-top moppet who scored in the film version of The Music Man, filches the laughs from Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens in The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Moral: never underestimate the power...