Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, on the testimony of Robert Graves (in 'Lars Porsena' or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language), is an antipodean ballad in which is celebrated Australia's addiction to a certain adjective which goes as profanity in Britain, i.e., "bloody." The lines more or less tell the story of Rogue Yates, a relentlessly robust novel in a little-known genre-the Australian western. Author Ronan's sunburnt bloody stockman is a dwarfish near-albino of repulsive appearance and character, named Tony Yates. His father, an ex-convict, used to beat his gin-sodden mother with...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). A pre-Broadway preview of The Ballad of Baby Doe, an American folk opera by Douglas Moore (TIME, July...
Furthermore, I am convinced that Beckett modeled his Didi largely on a specific person. Didi's name is the phonetic equivalent of "D.D.," i.e. "Doctor of Divinity." And early in the play Didi starts a discussion of the Gospels. He introduces quite a bit of philosophizing; he sings a ballad and a lullaby; and he has ministered to Gogo spiritually and materially for 50 years, and repeatedly makes medical allusions and diagnoses. Now what person fills the bill--theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, and compassionate servant of the less fortunate for half a century? Albert Schweitzer. If you think this...
...Edison first captured the human voice on a tinfoil-covered cylinder. This week RCA Victor announced its alltime high advance sale for a single pressing-more than 1,000,000 copies of Rock 'n' Roll Hero Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender, a surprisingly restrained love ballad that was just released. The Record Industry Association of America estimated that U.S. record sales have jumped 30% over last year's $225 million. The total may approach $300 million with the Christmas rush...
...Abby was there dancing waltzes, two-steps and the lancers; his father was there, resplendent in white evening gloves with the latest white stitching; his mother, who had a headache and could not come, was nonetheless gratified by the musicale-selections from Carmen, Russian airs by Wieniawski and a ballad called Love's Sorrow...