Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sail Away (Original Broadway Cast; Capitol). Noel Coward's strenuously hedonistic lines sound a little weary here, and his wit is Princeton Tiger '24 ("If you want to play strip poke /With the girls in cabin B/ Come to me, dear boys, come to me." But in a couple of songs (Where Shall I Find Him?, Later than Spring) Elaine Stritch whoops it up as if she were really riding a winner...
...fire which will eventually consume the U.N. and all it is supposed to represent.'' The New York Daily News suggested that the U.S. stop "bankrolling the U.N. Congo campaign" and leave "the Congo chiefs to settle their differences by means of the exhilarating tribal wars so dear to the hearts of most Congolese." The Tampa Tribune found a "monstrous inconsistency'' in the U.N.'s hands-off policy on Hungary and its hands-on policy in Africa...
...Friction Riders"-as the News calls them. Jimmy did not let them down: "The Congress of Riot Encouragement [Ward's phrase for the Congress of Racial Equality] and concerned officials in Washington rejoice that McComb fell and the Greyhound bus terminal rest room has been integrated. While these dear hearts are jubilant over victory day, people down this way mark last Friday as VD day in Mississippi...
...Ground. In its early years, Unilever was so tightly controlled from the home office that it was bitingly called "Dear Octopus" by its employees. ("You had to cable London before you went to the bathroom," complained a Canadian executive.) But now autonomy is the rule. "Once the managers clear their estimates at the end of the year," says Co-Chairman Tempel. "they are free to go ahead...
...Scottish wars; "Bothy Ballads of Scotland"--a collection of songs found in bothies, which are the lodging-houses of ploughmen on great estates; and (this time on Tradition) "Classic Scots Ballads"--a collection of just that. Another Scottish folksinger is Jeannie Robertson, who is what they call "an auld dear," and who is billed as "The Greatest Scottish Folksinger" on a Prestige International recording. The accent makes the recording listenable--I know of no better way to polish up one's glottal stops...