Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moralistic puzzles and behavioristic pickles are the stock grist for Guiterman's mill, which reduces jangles into jingles quickly and, at best, easily. The more proverbial the jangles, the more compelling seem the jingles-since they at least do something effective about things about which it is conventionally taken for granted that nothing can be done. Some of Guiterman's lightest and best lyrics deal with predicaments met with on the Ark; but his most apposite are contemporary...