Word: minstrell
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...Commercials was a good, stimulating collection of minor pieces by the best of U.S. working critics. Poet Robert Frost was much honored, but no poetry was published that promised a likely successor to him. Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems contained 72 newly collected ones that showed the same minstrel's virtues and poetic limitations of his earliest work...
...White Door," the question was which of the beautiful princess' three suitors would succeed first in his task and win her hand; in "The 13 Clocks" the evil Duke sets a tack that cannot be done and the question is whether the here, a prince disguised as a wandering minstrel, will perish after a vain attempt...
...strolling player-or was he a wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...went back to de girl an' she say, 'What did mamma tell you?' He looked at Irene-her name was Irene-an' here what he said ..." Then, his coal-black face gleaming fiercely and his horny hands scratching his twelve-string guitar, the murderous old Minstrel Lead Belly would sing...
Last week the old minstrel's old song, prettied up and cut in half, was in fifth place on the hit parade. A quartet called the Weavers, recording (for Decca) with Gordon Jenkins' band, had used it as a filler to back Tzena, Tzena. Helped along by Jo Stafford, Frankie Sinatra, et al., the filler had just about caught up with third-place Tzena...