Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that the sober, ginhorse routine of existence could inspire a man with life, & love, & joy-could fire him with enthusiasm, or melt him with pathos. . . ? No! No! Whenever I want to be more than ordinary in song ... do you imagine I fast & pray for the celestial emanation? Tout au contraire! I have a glorious recipe ... I put myself on a regimen of admiring a fine woman...
Robert Burns followed his regimen so strenuously that at his death in 1796, he was known not only as Caledonia's bard but as the Scottish Casanova. Popular legend made him a victim of wine, women and song. Less censorious, and more in accord with modern views, Byron saw Burns forever riding the pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson...
...musical with songs and lyrics by Jesse R. Barnet, Administration Fellow at the Graduate School of Public Administration, has been chosen for Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song," chairman Jane Flanders '55 announced yesterday. John Addey and Harvey MacGregor, graduates of Sheffield and Oxford, respectively, now engaged in graduate study at the Law School, have written the book for the annual production...
Eight selections by almost-blind Pianist Tatum, deserving hero of a whole generation of jazzmen, nimble Guitarist Everett Barksdale, and Slam Stewart, the man with the talking bass fiddle. Typical selections: a surrealist version of September Song, and Just One of Those Things, which goes like sixty...
...Theater in 1926), an outwardly happy businessman ("the visionless demigod of our new materialistic myth-a Success"). His antagonist is an artistic soul both envied and victimized by Brown. The artistic soul cries out: "Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am L. afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love? . . . Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear...