Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There remained the valise. Already 300 European families have left. Charming villas along the coast are empty and boarded up, for sale for a song. Those who could not leave wait and hope. "I'll go anywhere," said a clerk in Air France desperately seeking a transfer last week. "All I own is here," said an old farmer, "but find me a job somewhere, and I'll go." Paul-Dominique Crevaux, the pistol-packing young mayor of Philippeville, whose family has been in Algeria since 1847, was busy organizing a committee to resettle his citizens in Australia...
...pivoting on a strike and an O'Casey-like young idealist (Kevin McCarthy) who is killed in it, the events, far from displaying any clear dramatic line, are never really dramatized at all. Garrulous minor characters outshine those involved in action, Dublin overshadows individual Dubliners, speech passes into song, movement into ballet. The tone, reflected in Howard Bay's graphic sets, is now harshly, now religiously lyrical...
...four nights before Christmas, and all through the Senate Office Building in Washington, there was merriment and song. The bell ringer of the 1948 Republican National Convention. Ohio Senator George Bender, was giving a Christmas party; a newsman recited a parody...
Gadabout Homebody. The next step would normally be the Met, but the rigors of opera do not suit Soprano Farrell's easygoing Irish temperament, or her ideas of how to live the good life. After all, her parents were the Singing O'Farrells, whose song-and-dance act played the Keith vaudeville circuit in the early 1900s...
...soul to the company store.' " Added a friend: maybe the song strikes home to Americans "because we all live on credit and owe our souls to some sort of company store...