Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week another little ditty, with lyrics by Metronome Co-Editor George Simon, looked as though it might turn into a bigger hit. The tune was less catchy, but Leslie Records' Brooklyn Dodgers Jump was already in its second pressing of 25,000 copies. Reason: three Dodgers, Pitchers Ralph Branca and Erv Palica and Outfielder Carl Furillo, backed by an Ebbets Field chorus, were the recording artists...
...about a girl who kept protesting that she had to go home and a boy who kept insisting that she stay. Outside, he warned, the snow was knee-deep. Queasy NBC first banned the lyrics as too racy, then decided they contained nothing provably prurient, and put the tune on the air. Baby hit the hit parade and began climbing...
...intellectual error and "surrender of intellectual integrity," canonization proceedings may be in order. But I doubt it. Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity and student naivete (not to be confined with "integrity") toward other...
...story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune of "Rock-s-bye Baby" with a set of hilarious lyrics from the daily race sheet; this is probably the funniest sequence in the movie...
...best part of the issue is the poetry. The Garrison Prize poems, "England, 1935," by L. E. Sissman, and William Morgan's "Two Hymn Tunes," are sonorous works. Sissman's piece shows the author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived...