Word: singsonging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election fueled by emotion and fought to singsong calypsos, the newborn West Indies Federation last week came apart at its most important seam. Given their first chance to vote on the question of federation, 251,935 Jamaicans voted no, 216,400 said yes. The decision was a bitter surprise both for Britain, which saw federation as the best way to cut its colonies loose, and for the political leaders of the islands,* who had spent years negotiating a delicate balance of power between populous (1,700,000) Jamaica and its small, faraway neighbors...
...brown-eyed, curly-haired Florence Jacobs is at an awkward age-too young for kindergarten and too old for alphabet blocks. Since she was eleven months old. Florence has been able to recite the alphabet. She can also tick off, alphabetically, in singsong style, the 50 states, the countries of Latin America, the planets and their satellites. She can spell Mississippi and hippopotamus. A child of the space age. Florence warns that an astronaut's hazards include "cosmic rays, micrometeorites, ultraviolet rays and infra-red emissions.'' Last week Florence earned what for her age is the Nobel...
...Singsong, merry-go-round, Here we go off to the moon...
Moments later, Dave Guard, 25, and also from Hawaii, turned to the audience and-apropos of nothing-announced in a singsong Oriental accent: "You see, I was educated in your country-Washington and Rhee...
Compared to such models, the American Shakespearean actor is short on breath, long on Method and nil on tradition, despite the dimly remembered glories of Booth and Barrymore. Too many U.S. actors either singsong like walking metronomes or chop up the lines and speak blank prose. As for acting, Method-mad U.S. actors swallow a character like medicine and then release him through their pores in involuntary shudders. They are nonetheless eager to try the roles that all agree are the touchstones of an actor's skill and imagination. What is needed is the continuity of acting tradition that...