Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asians, but today's Asia is impatient and pragmatic. If India fails to make rapid economic progress or even if her rate of economic growth lags too far behind that of Red China, most of Asia, including India itself, may succumb in time to the clanking siren song of Communism...
...thus plucking Shavian phrases from Shavian text for its lyrics, Fair Lady wondrously preserves the salt-and-pepper flavor of Shaw's intellect while transmitting the gaiety of his wit and adding a sweetness he only grumpily betrayed. From Professor Higgins' opening song the Shavian tone...
...Lower Depths that Maxim Gorky might have written had he been born a 20th century American and learned philosophy from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Based on the "autobiography" of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano (as ghosted by Sportswriter Rowland Barber), the film begins and ends with a treacly title song ("Yes! Somebody up there likes me; Whatever betide me. he'll comfort and guide me, And stand beside me right or wrong . . .") throbbingly delivered by Singer Perry Como...
...this invitingly gaudy material Composer Moore has wrought a clean, melodious score which succeeds in conveying strong period flavor without being condescendingly folksy. Its melodic high spots include Baby Doe's Willow Song, the stunning Silver Song (sung by Met Coloratura Dolores Wilson) and a moving choral, Lovely Evening. Sophisticated musically, the score nevertheless is marked by a clarity rare to the U.S. opera stage. "Most composers today seem to be writing under such influences as Schoenberg and Stravinsky," says Moore. "I tried to return to melody as the key to communication." Others will get a chance to decide...
...initials of a negative statement to make a positive one. Example: "My Life Is Miserable Since John Left Me" becomes "Much Love Is Mine So Joy Leads to Miracles"). Most of each day from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. was crammed with talks, meditations, "healing sessions" and song, and the new thinkers, predominantly female and grey-haired, showed staying power that would have delighted Phineas P. Quimby...