Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholic culture. "Be nobly proud of it," he said. "Multiply it. Hand it on to future generations." A bittersweet moment came as John Paul led the young people in a mountaineer's ballad: "Don't you miss your country, your fields and pastures, your valleys and streams?" In the song, the mountaineer cannot return because he has been called to heaven, and no one missed the parallel with "Lolek" Wojtyla, who had been called away to duty in Rome...
...Monday evening the Pope sat before the shrine listening to the incongruous sound of a Catholic folk-rock band that blasted out We Want God and other religious songs. When the musicale ended, John Paul confessed, "I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. Now I must go; otherwise I will lose my image...
...children. How more saccharine than a sweet tooth they are. Pity the poor darlings. All they do is beam and fawn on Mama. Exempt the tiniest tot, Tara Kennedy, 7, who puts on a sizzling display of stagewise expertise in a song-and-dance duo with George S. Irving. A born hamster, she's good enough to wake up the audience. So is Irving. As Uncle Chris, a cigar-chomping, whisky-swigging lecher, he, at least, colors the stage something other than its prevailing gray...
...plants are healthy, the cats are "purring." Lest anyone be hurt by the very private life they have been leading, they aver that their "silence is a silence of love and not of indifference. Remember, we are writing in the sky instead of on paper-that's our song...
...Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military draft made headlines and Sen. Joseph MacCarthy (D-Wisc.) sought to label John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History a "red" in January 1954, Radcliffe students of the early '50s conducted inter-dorm song contests and fought off periodic raids by the men down Garden...