Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous high standards, Composer Porter will doubtless have the misfortune of hearing Red, Hot and Blue's comic number, "It's De-Love-ly," unfavorably compared with "A Picture Of Me Without You" which he wrote last year for Jubilee, and his current torch song, "Down in the Depths, On the 90th Floor," rated way below his "I Get a Kick Out of You" in Anything Goes...
With the commemoration today of the 329th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, the Tercentenary Year sings its official swan song Ushered in a year ago with fanfare and celebration in Sanders Theatre and wafted out this morning by the gentle zephyr of a Chapel service for the founder, the year that has held the mirror up to Harvard's greatness now goes into history. Yet it is typical of the spirit of Harvard's past that the leaders who breathed life into the Tercentenary exercises were thinking not so much of resting on laurel's already...
...caught in a fierce storm, Audubon took refuge in a trapper's cabin which became so flooded that he had to hold his arms over his head to protect his portfolio. In the midst of his discomfort the storm ended, and he suddenly heard a wood thrush, "a song of a few clear, mellow, flute-like notes falling in gentle cadences." As he listened he thought that no song could be "so gentle in its last, almost inaudible phrases." He gave up painting portraits of human beings. "After this,'' said he, "I shall follow only the birds...
Outbreaks of adolescence have never been a rarity at Yale, but the recital given by the Yale News early this week, when it pulled off the cloak of non-partisanship and announced itself for Roosevelt, was certainly the theme song of little boys reveling in their political coming...
...Chicago's Stadium when, on the platform from which he delivered his 1932 acceptance speech, he cried: "Four years ago . . . I came to a Chicago fighting with its back to the wall-factories closed, markets silent, banks shaky, ships and trains empty. Today those factories sing the song of industry, markets hum with bustling movement, banks are secure, ships and trains are running full. Once again it is Chicago as Carl Sandburg saw it, 'the city of the big shoulders,' the city that smiles...