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...principle of "negative cheerfulness" ("One statistician not long ago tried to cheer us all with his estimate that only 18 million people, not 50 million, would be killed here in a nuclear war"). He bristles with useless information ("Curmudgeon seems to derive from the French coeur mé-chant") and daffy definitions. At one point he supplies a graceful homemade nursery rhyme...
...while "The banks are made of marble?" For a convincing performer there is no such entity as a polite truth or a romantic stage presence which melts in the wings into a conservative reality. If this is what the American people want there are American "folk singers" who chant Russian peasant songs to the accompaniment of periodic taps on the dashboard of a Mercedes sedan, or emit plantation work songs out over the violin section from the confines of tight black pants and silk shirts. These are the part-time romantics who make their deliveries without the "Alice-in-Wonderland...
...Indiana night exploded with hatred for the visiting champions from Ohio State University. Jammed together in the stands on the Bloomington campus, Indiana's fans bellowed their chant like a war cry: "We want blood! We want blood!" Angry knots of students rose to hurl wads of toilet paper at the enemy bench. Down on the court, fired-up Indiana was playing its best game of the year. But Ohio State stonily kept its poise, sank three foul shots in the last minute to finish off its tormentors, 73-69. Five nights later, playing back home in friendly Columbus...
...shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they re-enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road gang's traditional chant. Wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express: "Certainly the show lacks the fine cutting edge that the Americans grind onto their musicals...
...Tour de Chant (Michel Louvain; Coral). A French-Canadian singer with a voice full of sighs, swoops and quavers his way through a pleasantly relaxed nightclub turn. Most of the songs will be new to U.S. listeners, but every so often Louvain slips in an oldie, e.g., C'est le Print emps (It Might as Well Be Spring] or Viens Plus Pres (Mama, Teach Me to Dance...