Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the practical men fell from their high place with such a thud, that the intellectual seemed to come into his own. But war and prosperity brought the practical men back, and the nation's band of intellectuals seemed to be tuning up for another song of despair. While Joe McCarthy was running amuck, a few did lose their heads, but the McCarthy flurry only tended to obscure one central fact. Far from repeating the attitudes of the '205, the American intellectual stayed at home and even found himself feeling at home. His perennial problem has been...
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (Verve, 2 LPs). Thirty-two sophisticated songs, sweet, hot and tough, sung with the utmost simplicity by the queen of popular singers. The Fitzgerald method, in her own words, is to "just sing," and at least half of her poignance comes from the fact that she sings right in the heart of the note (instrumentalists like to say they tune up to her notes). Strangely enough, she can breathe right in the middle of a phrase and get away with it-a nice way of suggesting that she is not so sophisticated...
Pork & Crimps. Their reward has not always been gratitude: one chaplain in the 18603 complained that sailors burst into raucous song in the midst of his sermion and pelted him with lumps of pork rolled up in the tracts he had brought them. Ashore, many Flying Angels of earlier days got bruised knuckles and broken heads fighting the crimps who shanghaied sailors or lay in wait to fleece them...
...faced and raging beneath his fork-tailed battle flag along the rutted road to Appomattox: "Now smash 'em, I tell you, smash 'em"; Farragut, fabulous admiral, lashed to the mast in Mobile Bay: "Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead." Back of the epic lines echo the epic songs: Battle Hymn of the Republic, Maryland, My Maryland, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Dixie, Marching Through Georgia, Tenting Tonight, and, most popular of all, a tender Victorian love song called Lorena...
Died. Guy Bridges Kibbee, 70, bottle-bald comedian of stage (Torch Song) and screen (Babbitt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), best known to moviegoers for his "Scattergood Baines" series and early Shirley Temple films; of Parkinson's disease; in East Islip...