Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the rock and roll types approached burst spontaneously into the chorus of the song: "Dook, dook, dook, dookuv url url url." (The song, sung by Gene Chandler, is divided, fugue-like, into three overlapping voices, a "Dook, dook, dook" line, an "oooooh, oooooh, oooooh" line, and the story line, which goes something like "Wherever I go in this wide world there's nothing can stop the Duke of Earl...
...quality of World's prose is such that fact and meaning are often obscured. One reads that Francis Gary Powers "sung like a bird," that Romney "did not trip once during the talking," that Khrushchev is "the wily, warty Soviet boss...
French opera fans are wary of opera sung in foreign tongues: German, in particular, they think, is a language that sits uneasily in the throat. Nevertheless, when Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 46, was lured to Paris to make a double debut-as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Paris Opéra, and as the Countess in Capriccio at the Opéra Comique-both productions were cast in the original German. In Soprano Schwarzkopf's case, the language might also have served as a reminder of her early career as a leader of a Nazi studentbund...
Soprano Birgit Nilsson, scheduled to sing the role of Brünnhilde, had to bow out the evening before the performance. General Manager Rudolf Bing gave the role to Soprano Margaret Harshaw, who was to have sung Sieglinde; into the Sieglinde role went Soprano Gladys Kuchta. One of the Valkyries, Mezzo Gladys Kriese, was ill with tracheitis: her part went to Mezzo Ethel Greene, regularly a member of the chorus...
...buttons, similar to those sold last month, show a white and a Negro hand clasped across a map of North America with the words "We Shall Overcome" above. The picture is the SNCC symbol; the words are from a often sung by students during protest demonstrations...