Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former victim of IFD (Idealization-Frustration-Demoralization) and a former student of Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, allow me to offer a ... realistic bravo for your article [July 12] expressing his thoughts on popular song lyrics ... It may help offset the frustration and demoralization that are so prevalent these days due to our willingness to rear another generation on word symbolism...
...country school at $50 a month. She toted ten gallons of water to school each day, made new, child-sized furniture, decorated the windows with bright cretonne to make school look "homey." Since then, she has spent her life arranging parties for her little charges, leading them through song and play until they are ready for books. Dedicated to the proposition that adjustment is as important as subject matter and that a child should not be forced to study until he is ready, she was chosen as a perfect representative of the "primary teacher who first unlocks for our youngest...
...chief attraction, as usual, was the staging. Wieland sees Tannhäuser as a harried misfit in a world of rigid conventions. Dressed in a black cloak (while the other minstrels wear brown), he moves among stiff, almost mechanized people of the court. Preparing for the crucial song contest in the second act-usually staged with casual confusion-uniformly dressed men and women march into the hall in stiff military style. But the orgiastic Venusberg scene, set in flowing concentric circles of light, is heavily sensual: the ballet flings itself into bumps and grinds that rival the old Minsky...
...yard, for a talk with Mother Landmeier and her healthy youngsters; to the barnyard, where Weatherman Clint Youle spoke of the crops and elements ("In Georgia and Virginia, the pecans are doing pretty well"); and too frequently to tireless Eddy Arnold, who will twang out a li'l song at the drop of a cornball. The chief trouble with the show, in fact, is that it is too city-slick; it needs more hay, less...
Bravo pour le Clown (Edith Piaf; Angel LP). Eight over-orchestrated songs of the sadder aspects of life and love, one of them (the title song) a rowdier than usual pagliaccio-type item that fits Piaf as closely as a putty nose. Perhaps more timely in France, where La Piaf is now touring with a circus...