Word: songs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ended the censure debate. Nkrumah's black supporters threw papers in the air and shouted "Ghana! Ghana!"-the name of an ancient West African black empire which Nkrumah has chosen for the new state (TIME, July 30). Then the Nkrumah supporters broke into their party's battle song, Victory for Us. Men representing the country's Ashanti and Northern Territories opposition sat silent. Their acting leader said, however, that his side welcomed the announcement, and next day the opposition parties agreed to join Nkrumah in working out a new constitution reconciling their "regional aspirations" with his centralizing...
Promptly Don Giovanni drew up a list of popular songwriters and singers, sent them each a letter: "I enclose a copy of the Gospels for you . . . Please find in it somewhere an inspiration for a song...
While Pirogov and most of the others are loudly verbalizing their predicaments or laying cluttered schemes, I. Koslovsky, as the fool, offers the film's most subtle performance. He appears just twice--first to accuse Boris in a soft, demented idiot's song and then at the end to lament Russia's unrule. Boris Godunov has come and gone, Dmitri has left the land in flames and he, too, will soon be murdered; nothing has changed...
...went sour on all the high-flown words, Operettist Rudolf Friml sweetened them up with some pleasant, sugary music. The Vagabond King ran for 511 performances on Broadway, and had every high-school tenor in the country gargling such sentimental favorites as Only a Rose, Someday and The Vagabond Song. Hollywood made a movie of the musical in 1930-not to mention two film versions of the McCarthy play in 1920 and 1938-and now the poor poet's corpse has been dug up once again...
...Japanese judge the private life of a geisha by the discretion of her indiscretions. Occidentals have been known to ignore her rigorous dance and song training and to lump her with the common prostitute, but this is patently unfair. Together with the hetaerae of ancient Greece and the courtesans of France, the geisha belongs to the aristocracy of dalliance...