Word: minstrell
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...without condescension's obverse, the kind of Negro-worship shown by U.S. Beatnik Jack Kerouac. The book's slight plot sags a little, but the gaiety and moroseness of wild, roiled lives are well told, and the reader gets a Spadeful of irony as the dark minstrel Lord Alexander sings...
Saddlesore Cowboy-Minstrel Gene Autrey and his music publishers collected $250 in damages from a Houston nightclub, whose comic was forbidden henceforth to drawl a vulgar tune titled 01' Gene Artery, a parody of 01' Gene's own theme that also slightingly mentioned his favorite hoss, Champion...
...regular maypole frolic in Peking when Stephen Tyler and 14 other U.S. innocents abroad-part of the 45 students who thumbed their passports at the State Department and AWOLed off to Red China last summer-got together with that jolly old minstrel, Premier Chou Enlai, for a clap-hands songfest. But as the Trans-Siberian Express chugged back to Moscow last week, the party line began to fray. Complained self-described "Rightist" Tyler at the U.S. embassy: because he had tried to dampen their enthusiasm for Red China, two of his fellow travelers-for-the-truth had bopped...
Cinemactor Danny Kaye returned to his Brooklyn alma mater, P.S. 149, where he demonstrated the irresistible hold he used to have on coeds, and recalled that it was in a school minstrel show that he first appeared on the stage and made a hit-playing a small seed in a large slice of watermelon...
...week ago tonight four august figures--Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, Foster Furcolo, and the spirit of Alben Barkley (represented by Mrs. Barkley)--gathered together, and held what might be called a minstrel show. Its purposes were twofold: to help pay Democratic campaign deficits and, in passing, to give Eisenhower a few licks. We don't really object to either of these enterprises, but we were a bit horrified at how the whole thing came off. None of the august personages (except perhaps Truman) seemed very easy about throwing bottles at the President-umpire. Perhaps it was merely that the Democrats...