Word: syne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of the weather was London's quietest New Year's Eve in recent memory. Only a few hardy souls gathered in Piccadilly Circus for the traditional singing of Auld Lang Syne. There were 162 arrests, mostly for throwing snowballs at policemen. A Daily Herald columnist discovered another social effect of the snow blitz. In mock horror, he reported that "five total strangers talked to me in the blizzard on the station platform...
...smug nonsense about Britain's war effort, but which also has recurring undertones of near horror and revulsion. (Dame Myra Hess is lampooned for her heroic series of concerts at the British Museum--surely not an inherently funny undertaking; and the skit ends with a singing of Auld Lang Syne which suddenly runs down like a broken record player, suggesting--what? That the whole war effort was a fraud? That the years of the war were unreal? Something definitely unpleasant, in any event...
...distraction and destruction turns up in his hotel and starts tormenting him again. Desperate, he soothes his shattered nerves with a dose of nature's own narcotic (Dahlia Lavi), and when the director has a heart attack he offers to finish the picture for auld lang syne. But when the actor shows a real flair for directing, the invalid flies into a snit, accuses him of "stealing my picture," orders him thrown off the set, smears him in the columns...
Thus far, the people-to-people, international goodwill aspect of the tour has been fulfilled almost beyond expectations. In Japan, where choral singing has been taken up with almost religious fervor, four groups from Japanese universities joined the Americans in a booming, 400-voice rendition of "Auld Lang Syne...
...street, near Filene's, neon Christmas lights blink on and off, radios, record players, jukeboxes sound seasonal music--from "Santa Baby" and "The Yuletide Olde Lang Syne," to "White Christmas" to "Silent Night." Nearby, on the Common, some elm trees pretend they are pine. They have been used to offset a large, carousel-like decoration which projects a variety of colors each night...