Word: chants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does all this survive? Most British schools have a new generation every six years; play-yard lingo ought to be highly perishable. Yet the Opies found little girls skipping to "Little fatty doctor, how's your wife?/ Very well, thank you, she's all right," a chant that goes back at least 130 years. Measured in school time, it has had more than 20 generations of wear. Children find it as fresh as ever...
...what it juxtaposes and contrasts-chant and wisecrack, surrealism and photography, insanity and farce, demonology and Freud-The Tenth Man is telling and sharp. And Playwright Chayefsky has an equally good ear for the colloquial speech of his Jews as for their dialectical pomposities. But in spattering its theatrical vignettes with philosophic question marks, The Tenth Man takes on obligations it does not meet. Far from turning fantasy into vision, it fails to save it from sentimentality. Not only are all the play's characters uniformly nice, but exorcism seems a convenient miracle drug, and the happily vanishing young...
...MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time, with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
...MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time, with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
...MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...