Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweet Sue Evans (Dot LP). Songstress Evans, a onetime philosophy student, runs through a collection of pretty numbers in a pale but pretty voice, occasionally accompanying herself on a lightly swinging harp. Sample saw from her pseudo-philosophical kit: "Nothing is forever, always is a lie/ I can only love...
...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Scholars have given St. John's symbols of strife and destruction various names, though the sixth chapter of Revelations, through which they ride, names only one-Death ("and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him''). The current issue of Saturday Review presents a new theory by an old student. His name: Herbert Hoover...
Maybe that's not the way it happened, but the fact remains that Goldilocks is now very much among us. And for a second-rate musical it isn't bad, its first flush of banality being somewhat sicklied o'er by the pale cast of good taste, funny lines, and money...
...know what it's like in the Yukon wild when it's sixty-nine below; When the ice-worms wriggle their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow...
...they leave that drawing room looking somewhat alike, pale hands and a shallow scowl and often wearing sensitivity like a club-tie. But there's an occasional sweat shirt and white sneaker; and crusades, revolutions, and reforms have very little to do with clothes...