Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This distinctness is not always an advantage, however. Oscar Hammerstein is one of the few top lyricists still rhyming "new moon" with "blue moon." And though his words are appropriate to the characters, they are not especially witty or unusual. Exceptions are "Keep It Gay" and "No Other, Love," both worthy of their composers. "No Other Love" would be even better if Rodger's melody did not sound so like Irving Berlin's "Something to Dance About." The only song actually bad is "The Big Black Giant," which liens theatre audiences to a large beast. A heavy, cumbersome tune coupled...
...Negro does feel bitter about his lot. But it is a bitterness greatly modified by hope, patience and humor. Negro intellectuals occasionally talk "African nationalism." But the majority of U.S. Negroes feel no more kinship to the Kikuyu of Kenya than to the man in the moon. They want to be, above all, Americans...
...Protest. Next day Editor Dakin (once a staffer on Manhattan's late, pinko PM) called in Moon and fired him himself. "I pointed out that the evidence against me was a little flimsy," said Moon, "and could easily be answered. Dakin just said that firing me would take the pressure off Collier's." If he was being fired for that reason only, Moon wanted a letter saying so. Wrote Dakin: "We have been eminently satisfied with your work in the fiction department." Moon insists that he has never been a Communist, that his name was not authorized...
...could happen on a magazine that once had a reputation for independent judgment . . . The magazine has, in bowing so spiritlessly to pressure, publicly 'admitted' its 'guilt' and injured the reputation of a man who has been given no chance to prove his innocence." Said Bucklin Moon: "All I can do is, through a great deal of personal work and some money, try to get myself officially cleared. I'm not trying to be a martyr. But this is a terrifying thing that can happen to anyone...
...Cool (the bands of Jimmy McPartland and Dizzie Gillespie; M-G-M album). Four tunes played in strenuous alternation by Trumpeter McPartland's hot Dixielanders and Gillespie's bopsters. The predictable upshot: the cool school does best with the harmonic complexities of How High the Moon, the Dixielanders with the basic chords of Indiana. But both manage to give the oldtime Muskrat Ramble a fine bounce...