Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skelton, his usual fumbling self, plays a song writer who leaves Tin Pan Alley for the life of a freshman at an exclusive girls college in order to keep up with his bride, lovely Esther Williams, who gets our vote as the neatest college instructor of the year. Villain Basil Rathbone tries desperately to break up the marriage but finds himself doing geometry and history assignments instead...
...Commandos!" From the rear, snatches of song floated forward: Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Someone's in the kitchen I know-oh-oh, Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Strummin' on the old banjo...
...after the Song of the Motherland was played, crowds waiting in the drizzle heard the first order of the day. Bialystok had fallen...
Viconian Thunderclap. Finnegans Wake, say Campbell and Robinson, "is a mighty allegory of the fall and resurrection of mankind." (Tim Finnegan was originally the hero of an Irish vaudeville song who falls off a ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap...
...leftish German author of the pow erful novels, Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success, has written a leftish French novel which was inspired by Joan of Arc in somewhat the same way that Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette was inspired by the Virgin of Lourdes. But Feuchtwanger's inspiration is less successful...