Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theatre can evoke aspects of men and societies for which the Relevant Issues are only images. But they cannot lure an audience whose cries of "Beat me, Beat me" are ushering in an era of dramatic Social Significance which promises to outstrip the thirties. Nevertheless (although perhaps unhappily), this siren song of the Relevant can be as useful to artists as it is currently seductive to audiences...
...criteria? At the Fogg Exhibition, two quite different portraits of Marian Anderson are hug together. The first is a formal portrait by Yousuf Karsh -- the photographer who took that famous picture of Churchill; the other, a portrait by Richard Avedon, shows Miss Anderson as the eternal siren -- the sad wailer with windblown black hair and a dark face...
...could not be learned yesterday if the patrol car's siren was on at the time of the collision...
...example, Stuart Davis writes about Cambridge, an ambitious subject for a short poem. Davis' observations are to be taken seriously; but he presents them in the almost comic perspective of someone resigned to the frustration that most students have, at some time, associated with the city: Gashed egos siren here...
Resplendent in their plumed helmets royal-blue jackets and white breeches' the Garde Republicaine stood in formation outside the Elysee Palace As the distinguished visitor approached trumpets blared forth a fanfare, and dozens of swords swirled in salute But the arrival was not the customary motorcade-and-siren sort of thing. Harold Wilson had come from the British embassy on foot down the Rue St. Honore and there he was: hatless, in rumpled suit, hands in pockets, pipe in mouth, t was a fitting prelude for a meeting between the socialist from Yorkshire and the grand seigneur...