Word: lilted
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...town-all young, all restless, all dying for a big romance. They sip their Cokes hopefully, they pump each other carefully, they whip their cars ostentatiously through the streets of Andalusia, Ga. It is all because of the new rector, Mark Barbee, who is giving the Episcopal service a lilt such as Andalusia has never heard before. When the four girls kneel in his church, Rector Barbee suspects they have come "not to worship God, but to worship him." He finds it unsettling...
...responsible for transplanting the tune is Wilfrid Thomas, Australian disc jockey, who picked up the record in a back street in Hong Kong, brought it to London with him last winter. The oriental lilt caught the British fancy. A flood of letters and inquiries at record shops sent Columbia Records' British affiliate on a hot-breathed search for the old master copy of the Chinese record. Their Far Eastern division finally uncovered it in India, flew it to London...
...rest of The King and I ripples shimmeringly along. The Rodgers score-which eschews exotic Bali-Hijinks-is thoroughly pleasant, with the gaiety of I Whistle a Happy Tune, the lilt of Getting to Know You, the marchlike verve of The Royal Siamese Children, which introduces to Anna and the audience a long procession of beguiling youngsters. Jo Mielziner's sets are gracefully evocative, Irene Sharaff's costumes steadily gorgeous. There is a delightful Jerome Robbins ballet-a daintily menacing Siamese version, all stylized and symbolic, of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...confident P. & G. was test-selling a batch of new products last week. Among them: Cheer, a synthetic laundry detergent; Joy, a liquid cleanser for dishes; and Wondra, a "washoff" cold cream. P. & G. also plans to invade the fast-growing home-permanent-wave field with a product called Lilt...
...cause of poetry is somewhat redeemed by English Poet Dylan Thomas and by T. S. Eliot. Thomas reads with a rich, controlled romantic lilt, and Eliot's dramatic rendering of a passage from The Waste Land makes it suddenly spring to excited life. The reader begins to discover the pleasures poetry can sometimes yield without guides, crutches or bridges...