Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December, when Christmas carols were banned by the Russian military government, RIAS's Uncle Tobias (the RIAS equivalent of Uncle Don) invited children to sing carols in the huge Titania Palast. More than 5,000 showed up. Two repeat programs had to be held and RIAS beamed the show "especially for the benefit of those Kinder not fortunate enough to sing carols this Christmas...
...victory celebration, the prisoners give a revue and invite the German officers who are guarding them. In the middle of the show, Gabin hears the news the Allies have finally won this battle. He rushes on the stage, roars out the good news, and all the prisoners rise and sing the "Marsaillaise." The German officers stomp out, and Gabin is put into solitary confinement...
...them to song. But the first performance of Marienleben, 25 years ago, was not, even Hindemith admitted, "a sensational success." Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen...
...This was a cause for dismay among the people who hailed him as the Golden Boy of the Thirties, the man who brought a fresh, now and vibrant voice to the theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance of his continued concern with the proletariat...
...also be warmly demonstrative when something takes his fancy. He has been known to get emotional over an objet d'art or a piece of costume jewelry, and he has been moved to tears by revisiting his old Yale haunts and by hearing Lena Home sing...