Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read them in quick succession with an urgent, almost feminine sing-song. He stepped back from the mike for just a second after each one, flashing a sly twinkle or a sheepish shrug as the poem demanded. The crowd loved the shrugs: each one said, What the hell, sounds good, don't it? The boyishness of his manner-you got the idea that the whole role of the Coming Poet strikes him as outrageously funny-endeared him to the audience. They liked him because he is profound, but they loved him be he thinks...
...over on the vast grassy slope around the Washington Monument. "All we are saying is 'Give Peace a Chance, ' " sang the young college girl from New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a smile on her face and a woolly scarf around her throat. And they swayed in rhythm to the song-the marshals with arms linked ringing the speakers podium and keeping order in the crowd...
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Starting with Arlo Guthrie's hit song of a couple of years ago, Director Arthur Penn develops an amusing yet tragic view of youth and a way of life...
...Belli, despite his name, is Jewish. Here he is simply "Russian." In the story, Miss O'Meaghan sits atop a gravestone and imitates Helen Morgan singing Don't Ever Leave Me-and is interrupted by a file of shocked Negro mourners. Here she is given a bland song (lyrics supplied by Eleanor Perry because rights to the original were prohibitively expensive) and is interrupted by shocked whites. The erosion of such fine details leaves the viewer with admiration for performances rather than the movie; for surface rather than substance...
...guests at the head table looked relieved, and one Faculty members softly sang an improvised goodbye song as they left...