Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While we're on the subject of revelry we consider this a perfect opportunity to tender a rousing... and we're sure its unanimous... vote of thanks to Commander Collins and Lt. Anderson for that party last Saturday night at the Hasty Pudding Club. The hasty pastry was quite tasty, thank...
...Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
This tendency, not confined to Hollywood, old in American life, is encouraged by a plot which has a flavoring of The Green Pastures fantasy, but little real resemblance to that subtle and tender masterpiece. The story takes Little Joe Jackson ("Rochester") and his wife Petunia (Ethel Waters) through Joe's moral predicaments, including a nightclub scorcher named Georgia Brown (Lena Horne), on his way to a needle's-eye squeeze into heaven. M.G.M. adds insult to insensitivity by issuing a pretentious screen-print foreword of legend sources and race dreams: "The folklore of America has origins...
...maestros, seldom bothers to beat time-he seems able to infect musicians with the desired momentum. But always he is about the subtle business of communicating to the orchestra, by the contortions of his face and form, his own profound knowledge of the score, his emotional temperature, from the tender to the explosive, and his exquisite musical taste. Beecham is widely regarded among musicians as an unparalleled interpreter of Mozart and Haydn in particular, and as a conductor, in general, of the order of Toscanini and Koussevitzky...
...people are more than pleasure-loving. We also have qualities of heroic strength-determination-will to struggle-faith in our destiny. We are possessed of a fierce driving power-optimistic, young, rough and ready-and I am convinced that our mechanistic age has not destroyed an appreciation of more tender moods." Any one that heard the symphony would have to admit that those words apply extremely well to the music, I am sure, and if the above quotation is an "elaborate pronouncement," then I am a marimba...