Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ballad Maker. Critic Eliot suggests that, before judging Kipling, it is well to make sure that you know what he was trying to do. "Kipling," Eliot believes, "was not trying to write poetry at all." He was a writer of verse which often, but always incidentally, came to life as poetry, as in " 'ark to the fifes a-crawlin'." He was a ballad maker, using that most ancient form of art and journalism brilliantly to impart truth and emotion. He was devoted not to the poem as poem, the verse as verse, but always, and utterly...
...more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no poet who is less open to the charge of repeating himself." In Danny Deever, as in dozens of other ballads, "there is no single word or phrase which calls too much attention to itself, or which is not there for the total effect." Besides a talent for the ballad, Kipling had, to an unusual degree, the talent for occasional verse. "Good epigrams in English are very few; and the great...
...London Times said was without parallel. It was provided in London's Royal Albert Hall by 200 U.S. Negro soldiers. With Private James McDaniel of Kansas City leading them, plucking tones from the bright-buttoned chests like a harpist, they surged through the classic spirituals and the exacting Ballad for Americans. They topped off with McDaniel's own "I see trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere. All over the world, there is trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere...
Tambo & Bones. After a ballad or two, the Interlocutor addressed the show's comic artists, who flanked the semicircle and were known as endmen. Because they originally played the tambourine and bones, the endmen were known respectively as Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones. Sample dialogue between the Interlocutor and Messrs. Tambo & Bones...
...United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique); Russia (Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky); the U.S. (America the Beautiful, the old European psalm-tune Old Hundred, Home Sweet Home and Ballad for Americans...