Word: gleemen
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...Caliban, Grendel has learned to swear from listening to men. But he is no premature ecology freak. It is not the way men ravage the land or each other that enrages him but how artfully and pretentiously they lie about it afterward. When Hrothgar's scops and gleemen sing of the past, quoting liberally from Beowulf, all those random bloody deeds are transformed into acts of loyalty, bravery, selflessness, steps to progress, and signs, even, of religious purpose...
...second time that the Glee Club was prevented from giving its traditional Yard Concert. Last Tuesday rain cancelled the first of the two scheduled performances. Yesterday the singers got through the National Anthem and about a third of the scheduled program when the alert was sounded. The Gleemen were back after the all clear, though, and completed the program...
Explaining "The Art of the Folk Tale" and giving examples which he heard in the Gaelic from native Irish scops, gleemen, and peasant folk, Dr. Robin Flower will speak to Mr. Hersey's English A-4 class in Sever 11 today at two. Mr. Hersey has invited all students who are interested to attend the lecture...
...life . . ."); "Church in the Wildwood" ("No spot is so dear to my childhood"); "The Lone Fishball" and fine old "Tourelay" with its chorus: Tourelay, tourelay, With my fillaga desha, skinamaroosha, balderalda boom tadeay, Tourelay, tourelay, And the pride of the household is papa's babie. Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead. Alumni like them no less than does amiable Professor Phelps. And alumni tastes count when a glee club goes off touring, has auditoriums to fill. Yet one glee club has for years persistently set its face...
...last week's concert in Cambridge, an oldtime Glee Club secretary hung on the conductor's lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago. Scholarly Dr. Richard Cabot told of the Club's history. Dr. Koussevitzky made a praiseful speech. The Club sang Bach, Handel, Palestrina and an ambitious "Dirge for Two Veterans" written in sultry, modernistic vein by British Composer Gustav Hoist who taught last year...