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Less successful is the Scholar's Lament, which tells of a Lamont-bound student who suddenly feels the desire to be "more adjacent" to a 'Cliffie. Here the humor is strained and the tone is hardly memorable. Please Darling is well done but the humor fails. The Lehrerlike Drainpipe Song is just a bit sick...
Emmet Hughes, who calls himself a son of the New Deal era, demurs. He considers the Eisenhower years typical of American politics, not exceptional, and his book is less a memoir of the period than a lament for political purpose itself. Hughes joined the Eisenhower forces in 1952 as speech-writer and campaign strategist from a disinterested desire to save America's two-party system. He was less concerned about the possible arrogance and irresponsibility of a Democratic Party too long in power than about the increasing unreality of Republican leadership and policies too long without the experience of leading...
Enriched by such experimentation, the true spirit of jazz still belongs to its players, not to composers who study the form at the distance of a good conservatory. Leonard Bernstein has captured the sound of its blue notes-the appoggiatura tones that mimic the human voice in lament-and others have used its reiterated play-song melodies. But even among jazzmen, the only composer who has consistently written good jazz for orchestral players without merely repeating George Gershwin is Duke Ellington, and Ellington's "classical jazz" swings only because it is safe, sensual music. "We're going...
Just when a playgoer wishes he could do the same, Vivien Leigh divertingly peps up the proceedings. She shimmies a madcap Charleston that ought to be recorded on a film strip of memorable moments from forgettable musicals. She torch-sings an affecting lament for lost first love (I Know the Feeling) in a bistro baritone that huskily recalls early Marlene Dietrich. In party scenes, she alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch...
...instance, could not be better: business-like in her work, gruff in her joy, searing in her grief. Patricia Fay is an honest, spirited Mary Boyle, at once demure and uncompromising. Sheila Forde who appears briefly as the bereaved Mrs. Tancred, impresses one with the genuineness of her lament...