Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Yves Montand and the Dirk Sanders Ballet in an hour of song and dance. Repeat...
...cannot return and the 20th century to which he cannot adapt. In a scene of lovely irony, he sits in a barber's chair fascinated by a U.S. western on TV, while, in the next room, a dying old man struggles to remember half-forgotten lines of Gaelic song...
...fact that today's collegians are more concerned with life-styles than with life work. Many of those whom FORTUNE recently called "forerunners" (perhaps 40% of all students) have apparently soured on individualism. They put their trust in "community," the keenly emotional solidarity of the young-in song, dress and politics-against the alleged hostility of those in the outside world, especially older people...
...solid and comfortable partners. To most of the nation, the second World War was a just cause, and when a chaplain at Pearl Harbor urged a Navy gun crew to "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition," it seemed appropriate that the slogan be turned into a popular song. But Viet Nam is a different kind of war, and clerical critics-including a few ex-chaplains -are beginning to question whether a minister in uniform can really be honest to God while remaining faithful to the Pentagon. This month several civilian clergymen from San Francisco -after an inspection tour...
These Rombergian sights and sounds at Butler University in Indianapolis were not a revival of Desert Song but of much hoarier musical fare: the symphonic ode Le Désert by Composer Felicien David. Grand-père of all pseudo-Oriental musical concoctions, the piece was an instant hit after its 1844 Paris premiere, and its popularity, in part, inspired such works as Delibes' Lakmé and Verdi's Aida. So much for success. By the end of the century, both David and Le Désert were considered as out of date as a daguerreotype...