Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side of the scale, Authors MacAndrew and Edgerton cite the Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...
...John dancing with his wife Yoko Ono, and George and Ringo picking out Octopus Garden on guitar and piano, but most of the good footage belongs to Paul. He is the one who seems to be running the recording sessions, and he is surely the one who gets to sing-mostly in lingering closeups-all the great songs, like Let It Be and Get Back...
This is the genre to which the late Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing belongs. Add it to the surprisingly springy revivals of the current season. The natural assumption was that Odets' play would be as antiquated as its date, 1935. Instead, it is a salutary reminder that real characters in recognizably human situations date only as people do, in particulars but not in essentials...
...conveys better than Odets the poignancy of a man who finds that the center of power in his own home is his wife, whose biological authority as a mother cannot be abrogated. One is aware in Awake and Sing of the wolf outside the door, the Great Depression, but one is moved by all the gnawed bones of hope, fear and desire that lie piled up within...
These men are obviously not concerned about their petty rules and regulations; they are afraid of the ideas expressed in our skits and our songs. But the RAT will continue to sing about them while we fight we shall continue to sing about them while we fight against them...