Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night. But this plethora of creditable performances apparently worked against him. Poitier got no nomination at all. One of the year's best-selling single records was the title tune from To Sir, with Love; a rock ballad, it was absent from the always conservative best-song list...
...Urging. If any message emerges from the music, it is "Wake up and be," a refrain of Richie Havens' No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed. But in another song, Havens himself says...
...terms of Russian song the question of restraint is probably irrelevant. There is nothing diminutive about this music. Everything is done in broad strokes and grand gestures. The syllables are rich and mouth-filling, the chords are full, and the passions are great, and as long as somewhere in the world these exist, there is still reason to hope...
...crackle of sere and yellow revivals is in the air. Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is still running in what is advertised as its "16th mind-boggling year." Among the musicals in town are a revival of The Boy Friend (1953) and an exhumation of The Desert Song (1926). George Bernard Shaw has been revived at least ten times during the past three years; Irene Worth and John Clements are currently appearing in Heartbreak House. Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde are also being trotted out regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson...
...campaign song opened the convention--"Onward with Model Cities Go/Onward we go to meet the foe..."Residents voted by waving yellow cards, often while munching free sandwiches and shepherding restless children...