Word: soured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society. Time jumbles, blurs. In midsentence, she switches from memories of sending her brother off to the 1914 war to the thought that her other son must have been bewitched when he went off to join the Nazis. How else could it have happened? He didn't like sour pickles, he combed his hair just so, he loved singing...
...corridors in the evening trying to guess who is having the roast rack of lamb, the corned beef and cabbage, or the Liederkranz cheese. It is a very easy game, but the Lalky incinerator system often provides a handicap by giving off all-pervading whiffs of old eggs and sour milk...
...audiences, plus Harvard boys and general citizens who grew in number until the bums were choked out. She was often rough on them all. She ignored their requests if she chose to. When one patron lisped a request to her, she cruelly lisped in reply. When another singer turned sour in performance, Joan suddenly stood up in the back of the room and began to sing, vocally stabbing the hapless girl on the stage into silence...
...straight sour mash. When purist critics seek an example of everything that is corrupt about folk singing, they always pick on the hapless Kingstons. First off, the trio has made as much as $30,000 a week, and this is unforgivably crude. Next, they smooth down, harmonize, and slicken the lyrics, embellishing the whole with gimcrack corn. But, carping aside, the Kingstons are accomplished entertainers, and many of their critics, Johnny-come-latelies to purity, forget that they probably would never have heard of folk music if they had not been first attracted by a heel-stomping ditty rendered...
...show. If so, it is due to television, which has accustomed voters to a panoply of gadgetry, punditry and minute-by-minute scoring to a degree unequaled in the past. Where else can the voter see the uncertain candidate of the early evening, the beamish victor of midnight, the sour loser of the early morning facing the ordeal by camera with his character showing...