Word: clang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles down the coast, where half a dozen American settlers have already set up housekeeping. "When we first came," recalls a retired American woman in Puerto Vallarta, "you could hear parrots from the mountains at night. You can't hear them any more." But to the Mexicans, the clang of cash registers makes up for a lot of squawks...
Even the daddy of the "theme" parks, Disneyland, has recognized that it's wise to play surprise-surprise to be sure that those cash registers clang. Though 5,000,000 contented customers trouped through Walt's Sleeping Beauty Castle and Indian Village last year, he has added The Swiss Family Treehouse, which will lead kiddies through 150,000 handmade leaves and blossoms to the Robinsons' abode 80 feet above the jungle-delightfully furnished with flotsam, jetsam (down to the last doily), plus a fabulous view. And the Oakland, (Calif.) Children's Fairyland has built a Chinese...
...sing-along program, she has proved herself the best girl singer since Rosemary Clooney. Her talent is evidence that not all teen-age singers are indiscriminately scraped up off the sidewalks and shoved into echo chambers. She has the range of mood and inflection to do everything from Clang Clang Clang Went the Trolley to religious songs at Christmastime...
...summit to see where I rightfully belong . . . One becomes weary in welldoing. The fire bell rang at 2 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock, 6 o'clock, midnight and 10 o'clock. While I was trying to woo Morpheus, suddenly that awful clang occurred, and I thought. "Goodness, who wants to go through all this again?" I do not want to go through it again. Why not take up the bill...
Although all four pieces of text deal with time, and although the score is studded with the clang of bells and the tock of clocks, the music reflects the text primarily in structure rather than in sound...