Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written by others. Guinea's Minister of Education is already planning new textbooks to paint such heroes as Samory not as bloodthirsty savages, but as the Caesars and the Charlemagnes of Africa. Future texts will hardly be able to ignore the man of whom the jigging, clapping Guineans sing...
...what they had in hand was a revival of O'Casey's play with occasional interpolated musical numbers, the producers engaged Melvyn Douglas and Shirley Booth to play Captain and Mrs. Boyle. Nothing in their performances compensates for their egregious violation of the rule that he who can't sing, shouldn't. Mr. Douglas at least does a good gruff job on what emerges as a thoroughly nasty character, but Miss Booth, in what should be a congenial role, seems almost uncomfortable; her famous infectious warm-heartedness is unaccountably missing, as well as her knack for pleasant semi-singing. Jack...
...Metropolitan Opera was still clearly enemy territory, but flashy, highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused...
Forty years ago, Ireland's countryfolk used to sing: "When next we challenge England, we'll beat her in the fight, and we'll crown De Valera king of Ireland." But Dev himself made Ireland a republic. But for 21 of the last 27 years the inflexible ex-rebel, whose dour personality probably owes more to his Spanish father than his Irish mother, has been Ireland's Prime Minister or Taoiseach (pronounced tea-shock). A man of homely analogies, naive honesty and unbudgeable stubbornness, New York-born De Valera dominated Irish politics...
...intellectuals, burbled one Red newspaper, "braved wind and snow, traveled at night, lived in thatched huts built with their own hands. Sometimes it was so cold that the comrades could not sleep. The comrades would make a fire and sing around it." So happy were these "heroes of the high mountains" that they forgot their "individualism, bureaucratism, and subjectivism and acquired labor conception, mass conception, and collective conception. How the cadres love labor and have changed their mental outlook...