Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iacocca. Moving on to Washington, D.C., they discussed trade and politics with Senator Hubert Humphrey (see cut), Congressman Wilbur Mills, representatives from the Administration and union officials. Eight days after its start, the official visit ended in Manhattan where, after meeting with TIME editors, the Japanese visitors rose to sing the hymn God Be with You till We Meet Again...
Divorced. Leontyne Price, 46, the first black to sing a major role at the Metropolitan Opera; and William Warfield, 53, barrel-chested baritone of stage, screen (Show Boat) and concert hall; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan. Price and Warfield met and married while he was starring as Porgy, she as Bess, in the '50s revival of the George Gershwin opera. The celebrated marriage later fell out of tune, and the two were legally separated...
...vision of colonial expansion. This is the age of Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The exuberant correspondent foresees a "brave system of state-aided - almost state-compelled - emigration" to "regions of possibil ity" where "the great-grandchildren of the crossing-sweeper and the sandwichman sport by the waves . . . sing aloud for joy in the beauty of their home and the pride of their race...
...that recalls Melville's novel (which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself and the episodic richness of the narrative blot out attempts at conventional literary metaphor, as when some players visit a famous brothel peopled by wet-nurses, who sing lullabies for $2.50 a tune. These scenes don't work as "Literature", probably because they're so damn fun to read...
WEDNESDAY: South Pacific. (1958) I first saw this stinker at the age of six. I 'hated it then and I most likely still would if I watched it again. Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi sing the kind of Rodgers & Hammerstein music that makes you wish you were watching the Red Sox and Tigers on channel 4. CH.5. 8 p.m. Color. 3 hrs. Last of the Mohicans. (1963) An intriguing reversal of the American habit of casting white Midwesterners as Indians and foreigners provides about all the entertainment in this Mexican stab at Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking classic. Starring Jose Marco...