Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rays on an olive branch. Maria's family was poor; her traditional white garment was a piece of borrowed store cloth held together with pins. Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible. A song from Euripides, to be chanted by a dozen small boys, was omitted. Khaki-clad riflemen and mortar crews stood around to keep the Communist pests away...
...feast day of Saint Igor (June 18), at Oranienbaum, on the Gulf of Finland, where his family frequently spent their summers. In his autobiography, he recalls the "sharp resinous tang of fresh cut wood" and an enormous dumb peasant, feared by all the other kids, who sang a song "composed of two syllables, the only ones he could pronounce . . . From beneath [his] red shirt he extracted a succession of sounds [by putting his right hand under his left armpit, then pumping his left arm against it] which were somewhat dubious but very rhythmic ... At home I set myself with zeal...
...what the Germans call a Schunkelwalzer, the kind of song to sing while buoyed up on Rhine wine, with a fraulein on either side, swaying to the music. It first turned up at the Cologne Carnival in 1935, called Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein. Too brassy for smart dance orchestras (which have always stuck more to stickier tunes like Lili Marleen), village orchestras and brass bands blared it out, with a strong pair of lungs on the trumpet and a heavy hand on the drum. By the time the Germans invaded Poland, even the barrel organs had given...
...Your Song and Mine (Wed. 9 p.m., CBS). Guest: Dorothy Maynor...
...admit it, even though his "temporary job between bookings" (his agent will wire him any day now) with an electrical appliance company in Camden, NJ. lasts for 20 years. He regards his children merely as part of the family juggling act, and drives them every afternoon to practice new song & dance numbers in the suburban garage. When they grow up and decide to live like other people he considers their rebellion against his incredibly singleminded dream (to see Albert the Great & Family in lights again), as subversive as a ripe tomato hurled over the footlights. His son (Dan Dailey) sticks...