Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...master of his own peculiar medium, and between the gaps there is some pretty good stuff and not a little absolutely splendid stuff. His exposition of his own personal form of social Darwinism, for instance, is typically Gilbertian, which is one of the finest possible ways for a song lyric...
...sonorous voice boomed: "This is Radio Wales!" and was followed by a male chorus singing the blood-quickening March of the Men of Harlech, the war song recalling the last great uprising of the Welsh against the English in the middle of the 15th century. After 18 minutes of "Freedom" news, interviews, oratory and song, Men of Harlech roared out again, and the announcer said in Cymric,* "Nos da [good night...
Whether there is poetry or not, there is some harsh truth in the 1930 song hit You're Driving Me Crazy. Long experience with patients at Maryland's Chestnut Lodge, a private hospital for the mentally ill, has convinced Psychiatrist Harold F. Searles that "the individual becomes schizophrenic partly by reason of a long-continued . . . unconscious effort on the part of some person or persons . . . to drive him crazy." It would be inane to suggest that this is the only cause of the varied and complex conditions lumped together as schizophrenia, Dr. Searles admits in the British Journal...
...best-known stories. And though this is absolutely his last book, he is still writing. "I am still amusing myself putting down different things that occur to me. But anything so written will be published only after my death." To those who have been listening to the Maugham swan song over a decade, it can only mean that he is working on another "absolutely last" book...
...harm to speak your mind, whether you are right or wrong. It's a little like voting: some people say you can't change the political scene by adding your vote to 100 million. By the same token, doesn't it do some good to sing one song and convince a few people...