Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise. As his speeding car kicked up swirling dust, thousands of his subjects-disregarding instructions-lined the road from the airport to roar a feverish welcome. Men waved banners: "Welcome Back, Great Hashemite King" and "Come Back to Your Kingdom." From the rooftops, veiled women chanted a wailing Arabic song...
...ones-in a never really gay evening. Harold Rome's score is agreeable but commonplace; except for Comedienne Sheila Bond, the cast, though youthful, is colorless. One trouble is with the people-or with the fact that there are none. Only in an occasional phrase, or in a song called Tripping the Light Fantastic, does the show stoop to the level of mere fumbling human beings...
This includes jazz music and, in particular, a jazz musician she once slept with in Paris-one Lee Marion, who wrote a song called Jehovah Blues ("The beat . . . was a slow dripping of blood") and then headed back to the U.S. Aldebaran spends the greater part of the book in pursuit of Musician Marion, who quite evidently does not want her blood guilt dripping on him. Aldebaran realizes this only after she and Author Steen have floundered through the swamplands of the U.S. color question...
...Colombia schools, Roman Catholic teachers now teach children a 20-stanza song called El Protestantismo. Sample...
...could you possibly report the candidacy of William Howard Taft's son without quoting the only appropriate campaign song...