Word: singsonging
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...Senator Lyndon Johnson (who announced his plan for a legislative-executive commission on unemployment to report in 60 days) and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (President Eisenhower, "the kindly Kansan, has unwittingly become the captive of hard-faced men"). The U.A.W.'s Reuther, in a high-pitched, rhythmic singsong? pulled out all the stops, deriding Eisenhower for playing golf and quail hunting in Georgia, and conjuring up the memory of the good old days of World War II, when everybody was working overtime: "If we can have full employment and full production making the weapons of war and destruction...
...still have the impression," Belafonte says, "of lush green vegetation, white sandy beaches, rolling surf, endless winding roads. It was an environment that sang." The people sang with it. The streets of Kingston were thronged with piping vendors or politicians drumming up a vote in the lilting singsong of the islands. It was "a groovy time. I was a great night gazer. I used to climb up in a mango tree and lie back and eat mangoes and look through the leaves...
Director Raj Kapoor's hero and heroine are two orphaned children, living with their sadistic prostitute aunt in the slums of Bombay. At her command, they spend their days in the streets and trams of the city, begging money in a squeaky singsong chant. But an old, kindly bootlegger urges them to the slum child's equivalent of the higher life: "You have been given two hands to work with. Start with small things first, and bigger things later...
...powder train of the imagination in excerpts from such classics as Shakespeare and the Bible, but confirmed audiles can find plenty of esoteric items, ranging from a cozy chat with a prostitute ("It's no kind of life for anybody") in Cast the First Stone (Dolphin) to the singsong incantations of drugged natives ("Chjon nka sikjane-nia tso'') in the Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico (Folkways...
...decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were festive rather than bitter, and wonderfully reminiscent of U.S. campaign rallies except that vendors hawked raisin cakes instead of hot dogs, and the music was supplied by singsong flutes instead of brass bands...