Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depressing outlook is relieved, of course, by inevitable cure. Even a lengthy, schmaltz denoucment, complete with a sing-song rendition of "Goin' Home" (from, naturally enough, the New World Symphony), doesn't seem ludicrous after an intense portrayal of life in the hospital wards, Director Anatole Litvak uses occasional special effects with great success, particularly for the doctors' Inquisition to which each patient must submit before release. The flash-back technique, employed when doctors probe the patient's unconscious to unearth disturbing influences, is slick and convincing...
...Song of the Siren. Dugongs are sea mammals mysteriously descended from some remote aquatic ancestor of the elephant. Like elephants, they have tusks; like whales, they must rise to the surface to gulp in lungfuls of air. The female dugong's nipples are conspicuous and set forward; when suckling her calf, the mother clasps it to her breast with a flipper that bends at the elbow. At such moments, the head and shoulders of the dugong rise from the water in a vaguely human attitude. Many ichthyologists believe that this-and the fishlike tail the dugong displays when diving...
When asked how her garden grew, Mary did not always give the same answer. At least once she replied: "With silver bells, And cockle shells:/ Sing cuckolds all on a row." And in Nancy Cock's Pretty Song Book, published around 1780, the row of cuckolds may be seen in a pretty woodcut, horns...
...Lehmann is well borne out by the series' first published volume -No. 12, Luther's commentaries on selected Psalms. In his thoughts on the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd"), Luther uses King David's great song as a commentary against what he considered a major evil of the Roman Catholic Church he knew...
...Song Before Supper. Last week The Yellow Rose of Texas was on a gaslit stage back in Civil War days, with drummer girls marching to its stirring beat. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing took place in a many-splendored pastoral scene (with a dismounted Gisele Mackenzie in riding clothes). Love and Marriage was in an abstract setting of sky and bliss, concluding with a wedding procession. The Shifting, Whispering Sands had Snooky Lanson looking like an obbligato against a film showing "the beauty and terror of the desert." Moments to Remember (a comedy number) went to Africa, where...