Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last days and I set by him and kept de files off while dere. I see the lines sorrow had plowed on dat old face, and I' membered he'd been a captain on hoss back indat war. It come into my 'membrance de song of Moses; de Lord had triumphed glorily and de hoss and his rider have been throwed into...
...That's what I mean by his speech being romantic. What he means by conflicts of the heart can now be interpretted as conflicts of the mind, about the emotions. He was talking as if the heart were the center of the emotions, which was a great thing for song-writers of the thirties and forties...
...this amateur play has his problems. No one but he seems to understand the relevance of the Dreyfus Affair to the situation of the Jews in Poland. The actor playing Dreyfus doesn't feel adequate to play his role. The other actors all want bigger parts, and a few song and dance routines to lighten up the story...
...frustrated, would-be Dreyfus has fled to Germany with his wife. Germany seems a safe place to be, safer than either Poland or England. The older Jews are left to act their plays alone. They put on an old Yiddish match-maker comedy that closes with a little song and dance routine about things getting better someday. The irony is tragic and painful, for we know what lies ahead for these people...
...satisfy, a Soldier's Field afternoon offers other diversions. Keep an eye on the band. Its iconoclastic half-time shows sometimes miss their mark, but do provide welcome relief from high-stepping and intricate formations of the typical university band. Its second-half rendition of the Harvard fight song on emptied whiskey bottles never fail to inspire...