Word: cow
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Brave, gay, wreaths are in the windows. Trailing ropes of greenery hang in department stores. Thin and bandy-legged men stand on street corners in red suits ringing cow bells. On envelopes are little green stamps emblazoned with the cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes...
...Black Cow...
Shame on TIME for defaming the time-honored "black cow"! (TIME...
Guzzlers know the "black cow" is composed of root beer and cream...
...perfectly expressed the satirical charm of the libretto. The singers, all promising Juilliard students, had been rehearsed until they were practically free from amateurisms. Jack (at the premiere Soprano Mary Katherine Akins) was believably young but not too cute; the giant (Raymond Middleton) blustered as a giant should. The cow's big scene occurred on the road to market, against a background of misshapen stars. Basso Roderic Cross filled out her front legs, did the philosophizing. The silent hindquarters, unmentioned on the program, were Student Warren Lee's. He maneuvered the eloquent tail-switching, the quizzical lift...