Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sing the Rolling Stones in Street Fighting Man, one track of their new album, Beggars Banquet. On a recent Smothers Brothers television show, Singer Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane used a Black Panther salute to climax a performance, in blackface, of Crown of Creation. Even the Lovin' Spoonful, once a gentle, folk-flavored group, have taken up the cry. Their latest album is called Revelation: Revolution '69, and the title song proclaims: "I'm afraid to die but I'm a man inside and I need the revolution...
...condescending notice-even his son Johann Christian, one of the four Bach children who distinguished themselves as composers, referred to him as "the Old Wig." Today, of course, Bach is universally ranked among the transcendent creators of Western civilization. Choral works that he turned out for rowdy schoolboys to sing in drafty provincial churches are cherished by the world's finest choruses. Keyboard exercises that he jotted down for his children and students still beguile and challenge great virtuosos. Instrumental pieces that he com posed to curry favor with obscure princelings are judged among the glories of all chamber...
...deputies quashed the government's motion to lift Alves' parliamentary immunity and permit his conviction for "publicly inciting animosity between the armed forces or between these and social class es or institutions." A handful of spectators in the galleries jumped to their feet cheering, then began to sing the national anthem. After a moment's hesitation, most of the deputies in the chamber joined...
...another, far worthier than I, express what lies in this feeble soul. Let the Poet sing...
Moss's minor characters--servants, barmaids, and roustabouts all--burst onto the stage intermittently with the same kind of gratuitous cavorting. A chorus number in a pub scene must be granted a certain amount of theatrical realism. The revelers sing so drunkenly that at least about half of the scene is completely unintelligible. The real problem, though, isn't that similar bits aren't funny (though they often aren't), but that they don't contribute to the more intricate and restrained development of the main action...