Word: sob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin...
...come off quite so well. Set to poems by de Lisle, Silvestre, and Verlaine, they typify that bittersweet, almost perfumed school of French music on the border of out-and-out Impressionism. Utmost delicacy and nuance are needed to convince the listener that "jets of slender fountains sob with ecstasy." Samuel Walter's piano accompaniment, although accurate, completely neglected the musical imagery. Miss Wheeler, for her part, lacks the technique of "French" projection--a sharply defined, almost nasal quality--that the vocal lines demand. She was more than equal to big emotional climaxes, but not to evocations of moonlight...
...bleeding hearts and do-gooders naturally will come up with sob-sister cries [that this is] inhumane and terrifying punishment . . . To all of which we say nuts . . . Speed of punishment, of course, is important. Not so much so, perhaps, as [its] infliction-publicly, brazenly, and in most terrifying detail...
...even if there were thousands, nay, whole cities who were going along with this (choke) disgusting trend, those of us who remain red blooded American youths should denounce Sidney the parrot for the crooked bird he is, and stand by Fearless Fosdick to the (sob...
...starched white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand. The girls perspired, waved their arms, shouted, clenched their fists. One little girl about twelve hurled herself at a guard, and all order vanished...