Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prefigured that craze and a group called The Innocents have revived the hit of the 1940's Mairzy Doats, with the chorus: Mairzy doats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, a kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you? Perhaps this is why lambs look so sweet...
...Verwoerd. But Vorster has been a considerable surprise. While not basically changing South Africa's policy of racial separation, he has proved far more reasonable than his predecessor, injecting some humanity and even humor into South Africa's heavy ideological climate. South Africans call his style billikheid-sweet reasonableness...
...necessary course for South Africa. He is overhauling the government's dour propaganda organs, has ordered the foreign ministry to publish reasoned presentations of the South African viewpoint. South African diplomats have been instructed to stop snapping at their critics and to try to charm them with sweet reasonableness. South Africans going overseas are supplied with booklets instructing them how to answer delicate questions, and Vorster recently urged all whites staying at home to start a letter-writing campaign to present "the truth" to their European friends and relatives. His government even claims to have started secret trade talks...
JOAN SUTHERLAND SINGS NOEL COWARD (London). The Australian prima donna has no chance for operatic fireworks but lights little sparklers from Conversation Piece, Bitter Sweet and three later musicals, while Noel himself makes a veddy charming bow (/'// Follow My Secret Heart). The orchestra is lush; the violins sway with the nostalgic waltzes that are light years away from today's Broadway...
...physicality of Harvard Square is to their taste, the flood of objects, people, shoes in store windows, neon signs half put out and grimy behind the light, candy boxes wrapped in shiny green and sculptured, candied loaves piled on display. Through all and over all the too sweet smell of oil of coconut...