Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ginsberg and friend sing the "Introduction" with mad abandon accompanied by guitar and flute. The melody is so natural and tailored to the poem that it becomes easier to believe that Blake did sing this happy song into Ginsberg's ear, except that Ginsberg claims this particular tune for his own musical talents...
...from the experience of slavery. In the fearful days of Stalin, the bitter, poignant songs of prisoners, which wafted beyond the gates of the slave labor camps, were known and hummed by millions of Soviet citizens. Although the Stalinist terror has since subsided, the memories endure. In magnitizdat, Russians sing of their struggle to maintain integrity in a society that all too often has brutalized its citizens. The stanza of one famous song begins: "Our own war is a hand-to-hand combat between honor and evil-something people don't usually write songs about. We had our ribs...
...lessons might help him to relax. She chose Charlie Lowe's Broadway show business school for kids. Charlie remembers her visit: "Fix up his diction," she said. "Sure," said Charlie. "We'll give him a little drama, teach him to sing, teach him to dance." "He'll never dance," Mama told Charlie firmly. "Just fix the diction." Charlie ignored her ("We do that") and put Elliott through the regular Lowe routine. "That meant everything," Gould recalled to TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, "Blow-your-nose lessons, dance lessons, wipe yourself lessons, masturbation lessons, bunko. Compulsions for a dissatisfied mother...
...Other women, offended by this week's national protest, are setting up counter-demonstration organizations. Mrs. Helen Andelin of Santa Barbara?a mother of eight?urges that Sept. 30 be made a National Celebration of Womanhood Day: each wife should wear her most frilly, feminine dress and should "sing before breakfast," serve her husband breakfast in bed and "tell him how great he is." Still more improbable is New York's Pussycat League, Inc., which believes "the lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." Its perfectly appropriate slogan is "Purr, Baby, Purr...
...Band makes music for the autumn. It is surely not complete coincidence that their latest album, Stage Fright, is being released as September approaches. For no matter if they sing about "dancin' through the clover" or some "time to kill" in June and July, the sure flavor of fall, harvest time and autumnal melancholy is in all their tunes, permeating the rhythms, punctuating every lyric...