Word: liltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dance Concert (Jerry Fielding Orchestra; Trend LP). A fine, fresh-sounding band from the West Coast gives a new lilt to such oldies as When I Grow Too Old to Dream...
...English Channel with the encouragement of a French champagne salesman (Fernando Lamas), who helpfully dives into the water from his yacht and paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles (Lilt) Walters. Best sequence: an underwater dream ballet, in which Esther capers among the coral with Tom and Jerry, the animated-cartoon cat and mouse...
...Charter. He spoke with the neat, oratorical pace and lilt that carried his audience nostalgically back to mid-October. He reeled off jest after well-phrased jest, spoofing the Republicans ("To the victor belongs the toil") and spoofing his own party. ("We Democrats are in a mood to love everybody. And, of course, we would be delighted if a few million more people would love us.") He also defined a commendable charter for a Democratic minority party...
...Happy Day, written by a lanky (6 ft. 1 in.), 17-year-old Cleveland high-school junior named Don Howard (full name: Donald Howard Kaplow), is a rudimentary little piece. To the accompaniment of his own guitar, Donnie himself moos his happy tune with the hoarse lilt of a fogbound ferry whistle. Sample chorus...
...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...