Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real name. The real Kim II Sung was a Korean guerrilla who bravely fought the Japanese occupiers in the 1919 uprising. The Communist interloper who took over power in 1948 simply swiped his name...
...vaster sports stadium. Forests of swinging cranes constantly add to the number of workers' apartment houses. The national emblem is a flying horse that decorates everything from matchboxes to tractors: the horse is supposed to be charging toward socialism at 300 miles a day. Premier Kim II Sung's* proclaimed ambition is to "reach and pass Japan's per capita production in ten years...
Particularly pleasing was the woman's chorus in the final section. The sung passages did not sound like the usual half-muttered versions so dear to most conductor's hearts, but rather had a youthfulness and brightness that went well with Senturia's straightforward interpretation...
...which immediately follows it. Fare Thee Well is a moving declaration of a lover's farewell and vow to faithfulness, and Miss Baez's innocence and simplicity of delivery seem to embody that feminine virtue. Equally convincing, however, is the latter song, a ballad of a fallen woman, sung to a Negro tune widely known as Black Girl...
...Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...