Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fragility & Philosophy. Everywhere he practices what he calls his "direct and musical approach." In Bangkok last spring, he walked up to Chitra Lada Palace, took out his 100-year-old handmade guitar (picked up in London for $112) and said he wanted to entertain the King of Thailand. He was invited to tea, where a group of high-ranking officials were stiffly collected. He started with some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais...
...That's what made it different," Carol told Coe later. "So often only the entertainers entertain and they feel apart, like freaks. Not with the Kennedys...
Last week was a big one for the man who sings them that way. Quite recently, Allan Sherman was an obscure TV producer who liked to entertain friends by singing familiar songs with lyrics marinated in Jewish humor. Then, during the fall, he made a record called My Son, the Folk Singer, which has sold a million copies and made a world-famous nut of him. Last week, on the day that his new album. My Son, the Celebrity, was released, he gave a concert in Carnegie Hall...
Guilt & Impulse. Miss Duckett's account, though marred by the errors of style that plague scholars who wish to entertain, is astonishingly rich in anecdote. Charlemagne was obsessed with his poor handwriting, constantly practiced it as he traveled over his lands in the royal coach. Charles's son, Louis the Pious, began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald...
...varsity track team, fresh from its 56-53 upset of Army, will entertain Boston University at Carey Cage this evening. And it should be entertaining for the varsity as they romp over a weak B.U. squad...