Word: balladeering
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KENMORE: The U.S.S.R.'s latest export under the Lacey-Zarubin agreement, BALLAD OF A SOLDIER proves to be a tender if treacly treatment of Russian youngsters during the unparalleled suffering of the last war. Well worth seeing. Evenings...
Other notable current works: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, The Angry Silence, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, Facts of Life and Circle of Deception...
Other notable current works: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, The Angry Silence and The Wackiest Ship in the Army...
...talents to emerge from the pop thickets in recent years. Singer Sedaka mercifully prefers his songs ungimmicked. and he gives a fine, fresh gloss to numbers such as All the Way, We Kiss in a Shadow, Everything Happens to Me. A songwriter as well as performer, Sedaka contributes a ballad with a better-than-average literacy count: I Found My World...
...DESIRING, by Menno Gallie (192 pp.; Harper; $3.50) is a sort of border ballad about the frontier between England and Wales. Few Americans think of that line as much of a barrier, but to Griff Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves...