Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this a ball with many Southern belles and several appearances of singing and playing Negroes. In general the music effectively increases the tension, though, with a lack of variation in the first act which is exasperating. Many of the arias, particularly those of the sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices for a Southern flavor. Yet the music lacks the consistency of, say, "Peter Grimes," so that the total effect is one of Blitzstein rather than the South. This is particularly true of the music used by the Negro group. Two of their numbers are beautiful spirituals...
Valpey, in a rarely unpessimistic mood, seemed reasonably pleased with what he had seen in the movies of Saturday's embroglio. "They made some improvements, "he commented. "They're coming along. They certainly can hold their heads up after that...
...teen talk (e.g., "beau boy," "corner casbah," "coosome twosome"). Sandwiched in between chit-chat about good grooming, fads and fashions and "date data" is a thick slice of advice. Samples: "How are you going to avoid necking? . . . Simply keep away from the situations that . . . send you into a romantic mood [such as parking] on the shoreline . . . Unless you're absolutely sure how much you can drink safely . . . don't drink on a date." Most of the advice is safe & sound, and many teen-agers who wouldn't take it from their parents seem to accept it from...
...Skater Bobby Blake was no musician. But when Blake tootled a couple of notes on the clarinet to set the mood for his act in Holiday on Ice, James Caesar Petrillo soaked him $17 for a card in his A.F.L. American Federation of Musicians. Blake, already a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Variety Artists, mainly a vaudeville union, paid to keep Petrillo's musicians from walking out on the show...
There was also a change in mood and tempo. Military planners were suddenly faced with a whole new timetable of strategic planning (see below). Congressional economizers would have to look at the military budget with different eyes. The whole of the U.S. foreign policy would be subjected to the strain of the new, accomplished fact...