Remember last Thursday's post on how to remember names? If not, maybe your overall memory could use a boost. The Optimized Life explains how to improve your recall by translating abstract information like numbers and text into visual images and associations. For example, use an acrostic:An acrostic is a memory...
In 1415-16 a Tibetan monk, Shakya Ye shes, visited the Chinese Yung-lo emperor to give him Buddhist teachings. (1) One result of their meeting is a masterpiece of needlework, a thangka banner embroidered with multi-coloured silk and gold threads representing the meditation deity Hevajra and his consort Nairatma (Figs. 1...
IF YOU hope to retire some time in the next two or three decades, please pay attention to what I consider the `Big 5' BLIMP risks of retirement planning. You see, there are certain risks which pertain to our long-term retirement funding plans. I call them BLIMP...
Stop the copying with wild and wacky research projects. Polette, Nancy. Teacher Ideas Press 2008 167 pages $35.00 Paperback LB1025 Polette offers models for unconventional research projects designed for 4-8th grade students, with the...
Anil has been making more alphabetic discoveries in the garden of numbers. As he describes his new work, "Your elegeant TEN = Twenty + Eighty--Ninety in WW 96-179 is perhaps best left unpolluted by more forced examples. But nooo, I couldn't restrain myself from offering a variously flawed set of...
Astrolabes and angels, epigrams and enigmas; from Regiomontanus' acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ. (CD-ROM included) King, David A. Franz Steiner Verlag 2007 348 pages $125.00 Hardcover Boethius; Bd. 56 Wissenschaftsgeschichte...
Redemption Falls By Joseph O'Connor Vintage Pounds 7.99 ***** Joseph O'Connor is marvellously versatile: this novel consists of a collage of first-person narratives, authorial overview, journal entries, letters, newspaper articles, acrostics, poems, footnotes, advertisements, transcripts of court proceedings and ballads which are often...
Susan has created a new wordplay game "with which to fill those odd moments. Decide on a particular trigram I chose ROS and see if you can find words beginning with each of the 26 letters of the alphabet which contain the trigram. If you manage to find 26 words,...
David Morice in WW 96-179 introduced acrostic equations with the only possible perfect example, TEN = Twenty + Eighty - Ninety. It's purity is perhaps best left unpolluted by more forced examples. But nooo, I couldn't refrain from offering variously flawed solutions for the other number names. ONE is nearest...
The business of letters; authorial economies in antebellum America. Jackson, Leon. Stanford U. Press 2008 331 pages $60.00 Hardcover PS201 Jackson (English, University of South Carolina) revises the definition of what constitutes a professional...
The title of this book by Michael West, an English professor at the University of Pittsburgh, suggested that it might be of interest to Word Ways readers. This was confirmed by a letter from the author, who asserted that "[the book] has much to say about the historical background of...
Britten's chiller thrills, young voices soar, and there's hot potatoes on the ring road Classical The Turn of the Screw Coliseum LONDON The Rake's Progress Britten Theatre LONDON Vienna Vegeatble Orchestra Contemporary Music Festival...
Byline: NICOLA JUNCAR A NORTH East teacher didn't know it, but his class was full of poets. The Year 3 and 4 children, aged seven to nine, from Prudhoe Adderlane First School, in Northumberland, entered a poetry competition and now some of their work is to...
Anacrograms, introduced in May, are anagrams of the acrostics first letters of expressions, a sort of wheels-within-wheels word play. Part 2 in August gave examples from common idioms and sayings. Here are examples from a wide variety of quotations, familiar and not. All results-paraphrases, follow-ons and 'antonyms'--are combined in alphabetical...
THE FIRST FOUR POEMS of the Book of Lamentations are in the form of alphabetical acrostics.1 Each poem has twenty-two verses: in chaps. 1, 2, and 3 there are three lines in each stanza; in chap. 4, two lines; and in chap. 5, one line. In Lamentations 1, 2, and...
IN 1959 in Tasmania, an unknown poet called Gwen Harwood started a guerilla war on incompetent literary editors by sending out her poems under male pseudonyms. As she had suspected, poems by 'Walter Lehmann' and 'Francis Geyer' were more readily accepted than those from Mrs Harwood of Hobart. She intensified...
Depression is more than twice as common in women as in men, due to multiple factors that include social roles and biochemistry. Scientists also now realize that symptoms of depression in women can have certain gender hallmarks, according to the Society for Women's Health Research SWHR. To express...
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What the diagram amounts to is specified in the top row. Clue answers are to be entered in the standard acrostic manner. Each letter in the diagram appears in precisely two answers. Clue answers are common words, and include two proper names....
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