Word: tropes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AUDEN: "Auden's is now the prescribed period style of the fifties, compounded of all the personal styles available ; but he no longer borrows whole lines, as for his first volumes, or even half-lines. It is a word here, a rhythm there, a rhetorical trope, a simile, an ingenious rhyme, a classical reference, a metrical arrangement...
...case, old smoothie Bill Dennis, a high scorer on the trope for the past two seasons, will play the here; cast as the villain is Harry Sacks, whose driving style picks up fouls and enabled him to set an Ivy League free threw record last year. Comic relief will come from Paul Shaw, who, when hot, boasts a deadly overhead set shot...