Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great joke, and although Merle Haggard continued to write and sing country songs, he lost the brief attention of the wider audience...
AWAKE AND SING, by Clifford Odets. This is one of the best of the socially conscious plays folks churned out in the '30s, about a Jewish family struggling through the Depression on the Grand Concourse or somewhere. I saw a version a long time ago in New York, and if I remember correctly the whole thing is effective and inspirational, particularly the scene where somebody smashes the old man's collection of Caruso records. 8:15 p.m. at the Tufts Arena Theater in Medford, through Saturday...
...cannot afford to make heroes out of men who simply ski, golf, watch eagles and sing trite songs...
...style-spirited, harmonically rich, melodically simple but full of pungent surprises-was crystalized in a string of subsequent hit songs (Somebody Loves Me, Stairway to Paradise, The Man I Love) and Broadway musicals (Lady, Be Good!, Strike Up the Band, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, Of Thee I Sing). By his late 20s, when Gershwin sought (unsuccessfully) to take some composing lessons from Maurice Ravel, the popular question was why he would want to be an imitation Ravel when he was already an original Gershwin...
Neruda is the second world-famous Chilean to die, along with hundreds or thousands of unknown heroines and heroes, since the generals seized power. The mourners who braved the generals' cameras and spies to sing the International at Neruda's funeral Tuesday mourned not only Neruda but also Chilean freedom, those assassinated by the generals, and Salvador Allende, the president who had fought for freedom and the people...