Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S critic must know that Herbert Marshall's translation (especially his "dud rhymes -'trees-industries,' 'linger-lingo,' 'see-literacy' ") is a successful attempt to re-create the Russian poet's technique. While this type of rhyme is not even considered rhyme in our English tradition, Russians make use of it. And, especially with Yevtushenko and other modern poets, it is such a special feature that it cannot be ignored in the translation of their poems. Rhymes such as "micropore-Metro-pole" and "Perlovke-perlone" are duds directly from Yevgeny himself...
Never mind this classical staff, say the dedicated followers. "Still, stable, traditional--like a wall." Out to the Establishment go the catalogues in pristine cream envelopes, full of offset smugness. "Our custom department gathers the finest of fabrics for every type of wear. We are famous for maintaining expertise of the highest order in cutting and journeyman tailoring to individual order." Sure. All that hoary tradition. Sir, would you like to look at our Steep Rib Cavalry Twill pants or West of England Poacher's Tweeds? I see, sir. Well, here's our British Warm in the Snug British Officer...
...defense, they use both man-to-man and zone, but they won't switch as often during the course of a game as some teams. Harvard of course, switches offenses according to which type of defense they...
...COUNCIL by Lothar Wolleh. 121 pages. Viking. $38.50. An oversized (17 in. by 13 in.), baroquely beautiful record of Vatican II. The text, succinct and printed in large type, is not particularly arresting, but the color photos...
...George Etherege, Restoration fop and mover, tossed off a play called The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter. The play is unfettered by plot, unburdened by morals, unsourced by satire. Like the Glass Flowers, it is all for appearance, a collection of delicately made specimens of a certain type of life. The Man of Mode is very much of its age, not for all time. In this limp-wrist world, the winners win by virtue of their wit, and the losers lose for having the bad taste to display jealously -- a situation which confuses our twentieth-century sympathies. Furthermore...