Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ella Logan, ballad swinger on a U.S.O. swing through Europe, broke out (in Darmstadt, Germany) with a blast at fraternization, which looked to her like a Hitler dream-fulfillment. "Having gotten rid of a good part of the German male population, which normally would keep the population down," she reasoned, "I don't see why our boys should step into their shoes in that department...
This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present...
...BALLAD AND THE SOURCE-Rosamond Lehmann-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...book fulfills it. It is a character study of Mrs. Sibyl Jardine, who lived in an old house set on a round hill surrounded by beeches and birch trees. Mrs. Jardine was a mystery. She fascinated children and worried their parents. The Ballad and the Source begins when she invites her neighbors' daughters, Jess and Rebecca, to pick primroses and have...
Stories Within Stories. The Ballad and the Source is Rebecca's adolescent portrait of Mrs. Jardine. It is a novel of stories within stories. The stories are suggestive, sometimes poignant. One of Mrs. Jardine's novels, it appears, was interpreted as a vindictive portrait of Rebecca's grandmother. Mrs. Jardine's leaving her first husband was apparently a noted scandal of the 1890s, complete with ruined career, resignation from the diplomatic corps, and a midnight attempt by Mrs. Jardine to kidnap their infant daughter Ianthe. When Ianthe was 18 her emancipated mother sent a lover...