Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interesting evening. "The Messiah" is comparatively easy to sing, but extremely difficult to sing well. Last night's concert was not professional, but nonetheless at the end you felt as though you really had beard a tremendous performance. It left you with an impression of massiveness, of light, and of extraordinary perfection. No one can deny that the Orchestra and Chorus have overcome "The Messiah's" difficulties and come through with a job well done...
...kids sing cowboy tunes and spirituals, and the songs of mines and railroads. But mostly, their heads are filled with the heroes that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
...pants, dance in ski pants, and if you ever get to bed, you might just as well sleep in ski pants." Amherst parties "are definitely of the beery, spur-of-the-moment variety"; a Holyoke girl once complained that "all they ask you for is to sing tenor in some quartet." Princeton parties are held "in rooms that seem no larger than a small station wagon." And a Yale football weekend is "one continuous cocktail party, punctuated by an occasional dance and an afternoon sitting in the cold to sober...
...apiece from it. They have written another tune, My Own True Love, which they expect to be a hit, too, though the public has yet to hear it. That one, say Evans & Livingston, is "a sort of present-day I Love You Truly. You know, you can sing it in church...
Roaches' Requiem. They sang over the ship's watercoolers and evaporators, over the food, coffee, soap bars and even the cockroaches of the storerooms. They sang particularly loud over the tarry caulking of the deck planks and spots of rust. The tuna fish made them sing, and so did the coral and the very sands of the lagoon. Oil streaks that had floated miles away remained menacingly hot. So insignificant was the salubrious effect of salt water that even the rocky ledges of neighboring atolls clung to their radioactivity in the teeth of foaming breakers...