Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the numbers on the program rocked Memorial Church on its heels, the old building sending back echoes of protest. Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," a sultry Basque setting, was particularly strong in diction and attack, something for which the Club is famous. Singing out-doors is a real test of such polish: Tuesday's audience heard every word. The concert ended with four choruses from "Patience," and afterwards members of the University joined the Glee Club on the steps to sing football songs. Merriment prevailed, and the spring counterpart of the football rallies had once more...
Liquor also was used to lubricate the famous Tree Exercises on occasion. This tree stood between Harvard Hall, Hollis, and Holden Chapel; around 1815, seniors used to gather around it to sing and give cheers for such individuals as the president or a favorite janitor at the direction of the marshal. Later on, all classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath...
...troops of General Chen Yi's third field army marched into the city through the northwest gate. Country boys from Manchuria stared in open wonder at Nanking's big modern government buildings, all of which were occupied in short order. University students gathered to sing patriotic songs in welcome...
...Peter Davidson, who has a more difficult role as the defender of snobbery, delivered his lines with perfect force and finesse. In the role of the Bishop, John Simon also knew fully what he was about, possessed some articulate eyebrows, and except for a tendency to speak in a sing-song at times, gave a good performance. As the prayer-mumbling Sexton, Jerry Kohn was frequently very funny but sometimes gave the character a meaning outside Shaw's probable intention...
Seven New England college singing groups will get together at 8 30 p.m. tonight in Jordan Hall to give a concert entitled, "Octets, Etcetera." They will sing Fred Waring arrangements, light popular music, and such old favorites as "Mavorneon...