Word: balladeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience in Sanders Theater sathunched forward slightly, listening intently as Cecil Day Lewis last night began the second half of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures by tracing the history of the English street ballad...
...just want to sing one stanza of this ballad, since it's so beautiful," Lewis said, his precise diction changing to a soft, rather melodious song. The audience satback, quietly charmed by the distinguished, white-haired poet. A few men put their arms around their dates...
...Have love as you do this thing," cooed Folk Singer Joan Baez, "and it will succeed." It was a battle cry, not a ballad. Marching behind their Joan of Arc, who was wearing a jeweled crucifix, a thousand undergraduates of the University of California at Berkeley stormed four-story Sproul Hall, the school's administration building. For 15 hours they camped in the corridors, whanged guitars, played jacks, watched Charlie Chaplin movies. Stairwells be came "freedom" classrooms. An alcove was a kitchen where coeds made thousands of sandwiches for the all-night siege. The school had locked the bath...
...Lewis cautioned modern poets against misusing other techniques, as Scott and Tennyson did. Too much sensibility can destroy the ballad's austere but intense story line, and too much self-consciousness or psychology can make it overly cruel or moralizing, he said...
...have to avoid condescension and not value the ballad for its quaintness," Lewis said. "It is still very much alive...