Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only high point of the Princeton weekend was the Coasters concert at the Cap and Gown Club after the game. There was lots of booze and a sweaty reminiscence into the fifties. "Poison Ivy," "Charley Brown," "Yakety Yak," and "Love Potion Number Nine" were the only songs left to sing for Harvard people after the punchless Princetonians had slushed out a 10-7 upset over the Crimson. The old Harvard fight songs just didn't have much zip after that...
...down the nave after giving a concert of a dozen new compositions of his own in honor of United Nations Day. Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Edward Heath were among the Ellington loyalists who heard the choir of the Royal College of Music and Swedish Soprano Alice Bobs sing lyrics never to be found in the Anglican hymnal. "Is God a three-letter word for love," they caroled, "or is love a four-letter word...
...what Merriwether has to lose. The Stern Cambridge is full of 90-year-old gabled and bay-window-bellied houses, just a gentlemanly stroll from the Square's latest Marx brothers festival. In a hundred Victorian parlors like the Merriwethers', attractive parents and children play recorders and sing lieder or Cole Porter. Leather editions on subjects like Provencal poetry decorate the walls. Pedigreed dogs, knowledgeably named in Russian or even Japanese, bunk into a birch-log fire. There is a golden glow of "we": husbands and wives, colleagues, the chosen circles at dinner parties off Brattle Street...
...even reminds me a little of George Orwell's description of revolutionary Spain's "feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom," where people could sing together as comrades. "In the barbers' shops were Anarchist notices (the barbers were mostly Anarchists) solemnly explaining that barbers were no longer slaves," Orwell wrote. "In the streets were coloured posters appealing to prostitutes to stop being prostitutes." Throughout Catalonia, he said, "human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine...
BRIEFLY...Peter Johnson, dean of the folk music lovers of Cambridge, has invited Frankie Armstrong, a woman folk singer from England, to sing at St. Paul's School Sat. Nov. 3...The Folk Song Society of Greater Boston is sponsoring a concert by Utah Phillips Sunday night at Kirkland House...George Carlin, TV comic-turned-countercultural hero, will talk about the evils of bourgeois American life Sunday night at the Orpheum Theater. He is usually hilarious...