Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michael K. Vidor '55 wrote the winning book in Radcliffe's annual "Drumbeats and Song" competition for original stage productions, Marta Enebuske '55, publicity chairman, announced yesterday...
...power. Outside, an excited crowd waited for the first appearance of their new Prime Minister. "Dis die leeul" (It is the Lion), they cried, and hoisted him shoulder high. No smile, no sign of expression crossed the Lion's feline face as supporters began singing the Boer song Vrye Volk. Wailed Daniel Malan when he heard of it: "I have miscalculated . . . I have miscalculated...
...last century to the South of a decade ago does not bring the characters closer to the audience. The switch in locale merely points up incongruities which slip by better in the splendor of opera. When an American murders his love, for example, he does not burst into song. The U.S. is not a country of temporizers; business is business and it is not diluted with arias...
...score was tied 7-7 at half time. In the second half the Buckeye fans started singing the Ohio State song, which is Momma Loves Poppa. This haunting old college song sure did stir up those Ohio State players. Right away you could see them stiffen their backs and begin to bow their necks. I guess those State players got to .thinking that they didn't want to be hearing all winter how the Little Women had missed a trip to Los Angeles just because they weren't men enough to beat us Wolverines...
...SONG OF THE SKY (438 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $5), might have been titled Real Gone With the Wind. Author Guy Murchie Jr., 47, is an ex-wild-blue-yonder boy who navigated cargo planes across the Atlantic in World War II and ferried supplies from San Francisco to Tokyo during the Korean War. Along the line, he acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of everything that moves in what he calls the "ocean of the sky." Though his book sometimes reads like an airborne Information Please, it offers engaging proof that scientific fact can be at least as strange as science fiction...