Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speak of "segregation's old unsweet song." Can't you see that segregation of races is an integral part of our way of life here, and that it is impossible to legislate a social change. The Negroes here aren't unhappy. They're not oppressed. They are making great progress...
About a maid I'll sing a song...
...next half-hour he sang his own ditties. Most of his songs gnawed and worried at a popular cliché until it was as grotesque as a Charles Addams cartoon. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie touted the sordid side of the Old South; a Love Song listed the discouraging aspects of senility. For the late show, the Lehrer lyrics got more gory and clinical, with a few interpretive asides by the entertainer (e.g., "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people"). When he finished, the audience happily howled for more...
...other respects, the picture is pleasant enough. Cantor's voice, cued into the song sequences, still keeps much of its first freshness. Also, the script manages to get a few words in between the big production numbers, and even provides a couple of probable parts for Marilyn Erskine, as Ida Cantor, and for Aline MacMahon, who carries the first half of the picture as Eddie's grandmother...
...aggression pact of 1939. He will admit having suggested the Marshall Plan and NATO to Western diplomats. The Chicago Tribune will comment on the fakery of the purge, right above an editorial in which Truman and Acheson are blamed for China's loss. Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song" will turn out to be bigger and better than ever with more cheesecake for Harvard's benefit...