Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cows don't sing, whales don't fly, and Charles de Gaulle doesn't take back anything he's said in all his 77 years. Except this time, maybe. Evidently alarmed by the angry charges of anti-Semitism that followed his attack on Israel at last month's press conference, De Gaulle wrote a three-page justification of his remarks to former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. He had really meant it as a compliment, said le grand Charles, when he described the Jews as "an elite, sure of themselves and domineering." De Gaulle likes...
...there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest dirty book ever written."* Finally, there were all the "Ins" (the bein, the kissin, the wedin, the dance-in, the shop-in, the drinkin, the love-in, the sing-in), and-with unerring glee-the moaning over the Generation...
...speak for itself"-another time through the passage, impeccable, simple and restrained. "Brahms learned this too. See how luxuriant, how extravagant he writes here"-pointing to a page black with notes from the Quartet, written when Brahms was 28-"and how, later on, the single, simple notes can sing alone"-a pass at the misty, half-muttering Intermezzo in E Flat Minor of 31 years later. "My concert programs are full of familiar pieces, comfortable like old shoes, but there, too, I try each time to make them a little better...
Redding would often sing in subtle opposition to the beat. In "It's Too Late," on the album "Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads," the opening comes so close to being in disregard of the music, and yet is not quite, that somehow the sound expresses complete desolation...
...German national anthem. It begins with a rousing Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and goes on to lay claim to vast tracts of land that either never were German or have been ceded to other countries after two lost wars.* Instead, Bonn has asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly ignored in West Germany by a new German political party whose meetings and rallies ring with the first stanza. The defier is the National Democratic Party...