Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think, contrary to TIME, Oct. 9, p. 28, that von Ribbentrop and his entourage recognized the Russian Air Force song, Higher and Higher quite well when it was played by the band of his Moscow honor guard. A song entitled Lied der Roten Flieger (Song of the Red Fliers) was launched by the Communists in Germany in the early 30's, with the chorus (last four lines...
...Czechs, once free, feel now like slaves. But being determined, they are philosophical. In cinemas, when the face of the Führer who is theirs not by choice appears, they sing a cheerful song they learned from an American film: "Hi-ho! hi-ho! It's off to work...
Climax of the evening came when the temple-dancers forgot about the temple, and swung out in a lowbrow song & dance from modern Bali, accompanying themselves with corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit, the bronze-skinned Balinese broke down and grinned, swayed like jamming jitterbugs, wailed a torch song or two, and showed that East is meeting West as fast as the flicker of an exported Hollywood movie...
What's New (Bing Crosby; Decca). Once more Crooner Crosby illuminates a dull song by singing it as though it were the best he had ever heard...
...France almost all writers were patriots, and those who were not did little talking. Notable exception was Jean Giono (The Song of the World), pacifist and peasant legendmaker of the Basses-Alps, who in September 1938 organized the peasants of his province to revolt against mobilization. This time Giono wrote the gendarmerie of his village that he would not obey the mobilization order. He was clapped into jail (TIME...