Word: sours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edith Piaf Sings Again (Columbia; 2 sides LP). More songs (six in French, two in English) about love, sweet & sour, by the little Frenchwoman with the big voice...
...Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and nervous, reduce the spirits where they are too high, and transform impertinence and obstinacy to mildness and soft obedience." Schools had become "penitential purgatories," and teachers "identified with a dozen unpleasant . . . associations-a sour face, a whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour faces that bothered Whitman. He complained of the overcrowded classrooms he had seen, of the bad ventilation ("Every school room should possess a very high ceiling"), and of meager playgrounds. He advocated a more...
...Atherton, Calif., Ty Cobb, baseball immortal and Coca-Cola stockholder, spent a day reading his 64th birthday mail and romping with his sour-faced boxer, "Chuddy." He was more than ever convinced that baseball should not be sacrificed even if the nation goes...
Bumps & Grinds. There were a few jarring notes. As the operetta's dupe, Eisenstein, Wagnerian Tenor Set Svanholm occasionally staggered like a fugitive from Götterdämmerung. Red-haired Soprano Ljuba (Salome) Welitch sometimes overacted her Rosalinda. Antony Tudor's ballroom ballet was a sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with...
Radcliffe has had a tougher time with the CRIMSON. In 1947 it was glad to see the CRIMSON accept Radcliffe girls as correspondents--according to one student source, because "Radcliffe girls will be more sympathetic in writing the news." But the CRIMSON always presented the sour with the sweet, and one student complained, "We don't like to have all our business aired. Our interests are not their interests...