Word: vowels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday night's contest, its outcome would seem to depend upon the health of sophomore sensation Bob Mlkvy, the younger brother of the famed "Owl without a vowel," Bill. Mlkvy broke his left leg in a November practice, and is just beginning to return to form...
...literature, nourished by several long visits to the country. Existing haiku translations dismayed him. Most of his 375 translations rhyme, on the very reasonable premise that Japanese haiku might rhyme too but for the limitations of a language in which all words end in n or a vowel...
...said: "There are many other things [that] help to make the greatness of blank verse, for instance, a fine ear for vowel-sounds and the kicking of the geese out of the boat (i.e., doing away with sibilations) . . . I never put two 'ss' together in any verse of mine...
...Downstairs (and of another water hole, accurately called Upstairs at the Downstairs, situated due north) is a mustached, elegant North Carolinian named Julius Monk, who dresses like an under secretary at the Foreign Office, struts a pea-soup-thick British accent, and floats out an occasional sowbelly vowel. Monk opened the Downstairs early in 1956, now emcees the show, also fills in when one of the two pianists doesn't show up. He is also busy planning the Downstairs evacuation to another, larger catacomb. Selecting the site will not be easy. Says Monk's man Matthews: "People like...
EILEEN RODGERS is a pretty, 24-year-old song belter-whose belting is the wide, black-leather kind worn by unruly teenagers-signed up a couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There's a wall between us, and it's not made of sto-o-o-one/ Although we're together I feel so alo-o-o-one"), she blasts out her ballads in what, if she did not use phony electronic echo effects, would be a good voice...