Word: melo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hesitates before the glass door of the downtown building, then pushes through and climbs a narrow staircase to the second floor. There he pauses again before the well-advertised insignia on another door, squares his shoulders and steps into a brightly lit room filled with the murmur of Muzak melo dies. The man is 37, married, and a fa ther. He is a steady wage earner with a $6,092-a-year income. He is also in debt (to the tune of $513) and pressed by his creditors. He is a typical customer who has come to solve his problems...
...MacVeagh's dilemma-and Knebel's tale. How to convince anybody else in official Washington of so horrendous a truth? As a Pentagon general remarks: "Nobody -but nobody-in this country can tell a President of the United States that his mind is sick." The result is melo drama at its best and worst: once begun, hard to put down; once finished, easily forgotten...
Even more far-reaching is the change within nordestinos themselves. Says Recife Industrialist Renato Bezerra de Melo: "You feel a crazy desire on the part of everybody to learn-even among the illiterate. I can start any kind of course in my factory, and 200 workers will show up." In Rio Grande do Norte, one newly literate farm hand-still thrilled with the simple miracle of being able to read seed packages-explained why: "I have suddenly discovered that...
...critic called the pageant the paltry sum of "lemur-like witches from a melo drama, fur-clad shepherds from an amateur little theater, and small children from a club Christmas pageant." But other German critics found Orff's work magical, "full of simple poetry and totally pious...
...book turns luridly melo-traumatic when an interviewer commits rape-murder and suicide. The novel begins with the smile of a spoof-exposé, contorts to a smirk and very nearly ends as a smutty soap opera badly in need of soap. It is notable largely for the crass calculation with which author and publisher can manufacture an almost certain bestseller, as well as for one of its few serious points, made when Dr. Chapman is denounced as the egocentric charlatan he is: "You speak of love in numbers. Human beings are hardly numbers at all. No numbers...