Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer's language. Ex-Prima Donna Florence Easton pleaded for translation into the audience's tongue. Metropolitan Stars John Brownlee and John Carter sang parts of Rossini's good-humored The Barber of Seville, first in Italian (hushed attention), then in English (ripples of laughter). The rather frightening vote: 460-451 in favor of opera -in -the -original, a hair-splitting 50.5% for continuing the Met's traditional ways...
What we say tonight has to do with blood and with bone and with anger, and also with a big job in the making. Laughter can wait. Soft music can have the evening off. No one is invited to sit down and take it easy...
...trial balloons and grotesque distortions continued to spew from the world's radios last week. Most of it was Axis concoctions; some of it was Allied counter-propaganda. Behind the radio barrage fell a blizzard of newspaper squibs, handbills, pamphlets, posters. In free countries men speculated aloud with laughter and curses; in Europe they whispered behind their hands in dim cafes and shuttered homes. It was a big week in the battle of babble...
Although the cartoon does not make the new short-form blank crystal clear, it gets its propaganda across with the anesthetic blessing of laughter and great good humor. As cinema, The New Spirit is a most effective job. It has a brand-new patriotic melody, The Yankee Doodle Spirit (composed in one day by Oliver Wallace, who did the Dumbo tunes), which is a humdinger...
From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...