Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young male lead was listed in the program as Gilbert Price. When he appeared on stage, I saw a fellow of fairly small frame, strikingly handsome, with dark brown eyes, a winning smile and shining white teeth. But the moment he started to sing, I was hardly conscious of anything else except The Voice. From that modest physique issued a radiant stream of ravishing beauty and expressivity, which, when the occasion demanded, expanded to so enormous a size as to seem almost a physiological impossibility...
Gilbert was raised in a tough section of Brooklyn, but managed to escape being contaminated by the rough-necks. At age 11, he went with his younger brother to Camp Molloy, a Catholic camp on Long Island, where one of the counselors wanted him to sing in the camp show. Gilbert was reluctant, but the counselor advised, "Just look at the light over your head and make believe you're in the shower." He looked up and sang, and the shower was one of loud applause. That day Gilbert discovered he had a fine soprano voice...
Tennis is preceded by an opaque little fable called Sing to Me Through Open Windows. It is done in the key of flat...
...plan was simple: Those who had gone the Capitol would meet in a church two blocks from the building and sing freedom songs to attract the attention of the police . Meanwhile marchers from Alabama State would sneak up from another direction and a ring of pickets around the building police could stop them...
...marchers smiled at the hundreds of state troopers who ringed the building. They waved at the county employees who lined the building's windows. They sing in joyful, Christian defiance. There was no anger, only infinite patience. King blessed his people and went inside to negotiate a truce with the whites...