Thus furnished, they come up to town, reckon all their errors for accomplishments, borrow the newest set of phrases ; and if they take a pen into their hands, all the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.

Those proverbial powers-that-be in television are trying to accomplish what one would think impossible: to make the picture irrelevant to television instead of its raison d’etre. It’s a little—OK, just a little—like slapping a copyright notice along the bottom of the Mona Lisa. Right: Little TV fare could reasonably be termed Mona Lisan. But trashing up the screen with typographical and animated junk is a slap in the viewer’s face and a sign of intense disrespect for the medium itself.

I'm a little older than you and started earlier. I started smoking pot at 16. I was in graduate school in the early 80s and had reduced my practice of recreational medicine by quite a bit.

Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are An Excelente Balade of Charitie, written in the rhyme royal; and The Bristowe Tragedie, in the common ballad stanza.