Word: sweetmeats
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...LIFE (Elektra). As the folk scene fades, the folk singers scatter. Judy Collins, one of the best, has not gone far afield to find this mixed bag of songs, some sentimental (including the title number, a sweetmeat from the Beatles), some revolutionary (Marat/Sade). Her songwriters include Leonard Cohen, a Canadian poet who makes good use of Collins' dark, low voice and powerful delivery; his Dress Rehearsal Rag is a five-minute saga of a has-been on "the long way down...
...excitement of the audience mounted with every minute. The sellers of native beer, the sweetmeat vendors the "yan-tabur" (literally "sons of tables," thus "barrow-boys") and the "yan tala" (purveyors of hot cooked meats or other foodstuffs) offered their little trays of sugared delicacies, of spiced offals stuck on a wooden skewer and liberally dusted with hot pepper, of puffed cracknells fried golden brown in seething oil, passing up and down in endless procession amongst the assembled multitude...
...when FitzGerald was 44, he published, at his own expense, his translation of six works by Spanish Playwright Calderon (which the Athenaeum considered "quite unnecessary to treat as a serious work"). Then a friend introduced him to what FitzGerald dubbed "the Sweetmeat, Childish, Oriental World" of the Persian language. Three years later, he braved the critics with a rendition of the Persian poem, Salaman and Absal...
...Guiterman smile is teasing-the smile of a verbal sweetmeat-maker who knows how words can be tenderized, much like prunes, to please the palates of the literarily refined. Guiterman's tenderization process consists in rhyming and chiming big and little, tough and honeyed words together, and packing them into tight verse forms, that insure a close misfit...
Anna Turkel. Her father was an Austrian immigrant who settled in Woonsocket. R.I. and begat eight children. Anna, the eldest, was determined to be a singer and Father Turkel was equally determined that she should never change her name. Anna made sure-fire copy because she was once a sweetmeat seller at the Metropolitan Opera House where she listened constantly to such singers as Lucrezia Bori, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza. In Europe she did well by the name of Turkel. But Chicago last week found her cold and immature...