Word: lullabye
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Music in the Air. In Birmingham, civil defense officials decided to install more air-raid sirens after a test alert was drowned out in Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's department store by a set of chimes playing Brahms's Lullaby.
Three Soviet propaganda themes rose above the hullabaloo: 1) the old Russian lullaby cooing that Moscow seeks "unity with the peace-loving peoples everywhere"; 2) a nostalgic German love song urging the reunification of East and West Germany "under the leadership of ... the mighty Soviet Union"; 3) a war chant...
Berg developed his own unique "song-speech," with notes at definite pitches which are neither exactly sung nor spoken. But he could write beautiful melody too, most notably the lovely lullaby Marie sings to her child. Overall, Wozzeck has a sardonic, contorted quality, but one that is clearly the work...
In a Washington beauty parlor last week a customer under a drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about...
While most of the words that Colby discusses are suggested by his readers, Colby turned the tables in 1942 by asking them: What are the most euphonious English words? The top ten by popular vote: mother, memory, Cellophane, bellboy, melancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wilderness, tambourine, lavender. Last week Logophile Colby reported...