Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels has swollen from a trickle to a stream in the past 15 months. From Japan have come Some Prefer Nettles and Homecoming, together with a reissue of The Honorable Picnic. A Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day China in the Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never...
...would not be entirely right to say the movie is built around Danny Kaye because it tries, at first, to be a parody, and a rather subtle one, of Hollywood's own breed of medieval extravaganza. The turning point seems to come after Roderick, gurgling, "Wenches, laughter, song! That's what we need around this old castle," sends his men out to scour the countryside. In an amusing take-off on Western posse scenes the King's men roll about the land picking up cart-loads of wenches. The cameras linger on the wenches, and good clean medieval escapades soon...
...every zig its zag, so there were many experts to say that nothing had in fact changed. It was true that Russia's new masters had only reviled the old tyrant in order to perpetuate his tyranny. But there was a new face in Russia, and a new song on its lips. The old song of Stalin's was a menacing basso proclaiming a defiant people encircled by a hostile world; now a mellower baritone pleasingly rendered, "Why Can't We Be Friends...
...chorus and excused the theater's other 60 choristers. After that all Prawy had to do, by sheer dictatorial force, was to prevent the Austrian singers from ad-libbing about Vienna weather, Austrian taxes or anything else they might think funny in the middle of a song...
...rocketing increase in consumer credit has brought new life to an old business: debt counseling. Hundreds of consultants (also called poolers, liquidators, lumpers, managers, proraters) have sprung up around the nation and, in radio and newspaper ads, sing a soothing song: "Cheer up! No matter how much you owe or how many creditors you have-we will take over, arrange everything so that a single regular payment you can afford takes care of everything." Some imply that they will lend the debtor enough money to pay off his debts. But all the counselors do is collect money from the debtor...