Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diabolical black fire of this neo-Dadaist life in America, agonizing over Harvard's impending football doom like a particle in the livid-frigid Flux, I decided to drop in on the Cecilia Society and the Glee Club concerts at the still point of the burning world. "Song is the key," I reasoned, "for only the rapture of song links such disparate spirits as Arjuna, Chemosh, Mailer, Nixon, Tristan, Bruckner, and the confluence of latent universal souls thrashing about in the torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions of life in an decipherable moment of ineffable unity...
...Head. After a well-conceived opening sequence, its humor descends well beneath that of The Monkees' TV show, despite the implications of one of the most calculated publicity campaigns in recent memory. The quartet have mercifully honored us with only five songs, indistinguishable from one another with the exception of The Porpoise Song which has been on the radio for 41/2 months. The director plainly aspires to TV commercials and thinks he's got a line on how to be Richard Lester. He's mistaken. The film's distinguishing trait is its unbelievable paranoia: the plotless action has The Monkees...
Full-length cartoon features have been based on novels (Gulliver's Travels), fairy tales (Snow White), even classical music (Fantasia). Yellow Submarine may be the first to be based on a song. Recorded in 1966, the Beatles' jaunty single was jolly good nonsense that even a tune-deaf kid could sing. It was also a sly euphemism for a drug-inspired freak-out. The movie ends up as a curious case of artistic schizophrenia. The score includes several hits by the Beatles and just as many misses. The plot and the animation seem too square for hippies...
Last week the merger prospects vanished as suddenly as they had appeared. In a joint statement that was every bit as unexpected as their September song, McColough and C.I.T. Chairman L. Walter Lundell announced a "mutual agreement" to drop the matter. They offered no reason for the dropout. The two companies did, however, have some explaining to do-if only to their own people. One nonplussed C.I.T. director complained to newsmen that he had been taken by surprise both in September and by last week's announcement. The idea had been broached and the two companies had launched studies...
...beating and moaning in Lombardi's bedlam. "Tomorrow, I imagine, Coach Lombardi'll pat him on the head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even in some twisted way enjoys it. He describes Lombardi as primarily a child psychologist; but perhaps athletes have to become as little children...