Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good deed...
...Rodgers has swathed it in one of his warmest and most velvety scores. More than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This Was a Real Nice Clam Bake, the full-throated sweetness of June Is Bustin' Out All Over. And Hammerstein has caught their spirit with his lyrics...
Britons were shocked and gloomy. The usually imperturbable BBC had a moment of emotion: "most tragic night of the war. . . ." Famed Cartoonist David Low, who is seldom kind, spoke for Britain with a true and tender pen (see cut). Londoners bowed their heads in daffodil-blooming parks as military bands played The Star-Spangled Banner...
...been in this war a long time, seen action and must see much more I think your little fairy tale does the hope of mine and of all partisans of peace a grievous disservice. . . . The flower of world collaboration is a tender one indeed. And every hand in the world is not too many to nurture...
...printed the article, ran an approving editorial. Said the News Leader: "It is plainly the duty of Mrs. Carter Glass to make it clear to her husband that his age and physical condition disbar him from further duty in the Senate and to prevail on him to tender his resignation. ... It is imperative that another Virginian . . . willing to fight against the march of radical forces ... be sent to Washington immediately...