Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most gospel singers tend to hitch their style to one type of gospel belting. There's hard gospel," a heavily syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...
...poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Calm and easy...
...minor actors, from Caligula's clean-cut ROTC army to Scipio (a sweet young poet who wears a turtle neck sweater and an Italian zoot-suit), were mild, unprepossessing, and without talent. But from the gray haze of the production emerge the performances of Lynn Milgrim and David Gullette as Caesonia and Caligula. Miss Milgrim's asset is her presence, her ability to command the stage. She is a marble statue on a stage of mannequins...
...redundantly, all sides of what has really no center. Sometimes the charm of Carnival! is real, sometimes synthetic. Sometimes the show expresses a circus world, sometimes it merely exploits it. Love, again, comes to seem more of a refrain than a reality, a happenstance that can make it peculiarly sweet in places but also quite mawkish in others. A famous axiom holds good in Carnival!: the audience's heart is most touched when least tugged...
Gentle, well-mannered, the sweet strings of our Orphean lute add melody to the clamour. The Crimson is a local paper, and it will support its team. The mighty Red Sox have tasted the bitter almonds of defeat more than once, but they are ours and we cannot graciously renounce them. Simple loyalty is a more powerful force than all the serpents, who hiss the tunes of realistic appraisal. The Red Sox will endure. The noble Williams, who so justly detested his public, and whose grand saliva made rainbows inspiring to behold, is no longer with them, but they will...