Word: scarum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS: WOOLY BULLY. Sam, who comes from Dallas, plays a jazzy organ and travels by hearse with his harum-scarum pharaohs, who sing falsetto or blow the sax. Wooly Bully is their runaway hit, but there are other lightheaded numbers like Gangster of Love and a Latin piece by Sam called Juimonos (meaning "Let's Went" in slangy Spanish...
Spain and then rapidly reprinted all over the Continent. Readers rich and poor were troubled by the author's smiling horror of Renaissance society, but they were also tickled by the scarum scrapes and earthy humor of his hero, a perky little picaro (scalawag) who became the Huck Finn of his century. Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature...
Child actors are apt to lose the natural graces and harum-scarum spontaneity of real children, but Debbie Scott, Susan Towers and Philip Visco are unselfconsciously perfect, and except for a last-minute flurry of sentimentality, so is the play...
...Mooning Tradition. Ever since she created that yearning, harum-scarum, twelve-year-old Frankie who wanted to be The Member of the Wedding, Novelist McCullers has been part of the U.S. tradition of mooning, a tradition to which Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, and William Saroyan, at his infrequent best, belonged. But where Frankie shed her fantasies for the more abundant life of growing up, the characters in the current novel are stripped of their fantasies only to wither away. Clock Without Hands is thus a kind of Member of the Funeral. Death is admittedly the theme Novelist McCullers...
...almost as big as he is, Tobias finds novel uses for its contents. With his saw he rescues an absent-minded carpenter who had built a house without a door. With his shovel he refloats a stranded whale. Author-Illustrator Warner's pictures are as winningly harum-scarum as her resourceful little hero...