Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little of the social transiency of Commuterland, where the richest nomads in the world fold their $15,000 and $25,000 tents and move on in the family Buick to more exclusive oases. Unfortunately, too much of the novel verges on upper-middle-class soap opera baited with tune-in-tomorrow-for-the-next-upsetting-episode slickness. Author Wilson has something to say, but his title sums up his book better than his story does...
...when he heard the playback, he recognized the sound of a good pop voice. A record company agreed, and so he looked around for the right song for Priscilla to record profesionally. Six weeks and 120 songs later, the pretty little girl with bands on her teeth recorded a tune called The Man in a Raincoat for Sparton of Canada...
...moody, modey tune that began with the sound of footsteps in the rain and ended on the indeterminate, to-be-continued note. Its words revealed a valid adolescent's dream: a chance encounter, a blooming love affair, a tragic ending when the man borrowed her money to buy her a ring and then "skipped out of town," never to be seen again...
Damn Yankees (original Broadway cast; Victor LP). Gwen Verdon, whose dancing warms up this show onstage, duplicates the favor vocally for the record. It needs her. Except for the rowdy tune called Whatever Lola Wants (TIME, May 16). nothing quite matches the lines, written by the same team (Richard Adler-Jerry Ross), for last year's Pajama Game...
...arms: "Ladies and gentlemen, form your own opinions concerning art . . . and when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business, you will be astonished . . . how fast they will change their tune." At first, Hartford's targets shrugged him off as a crank with money. Newspaper editorials and letters-to-the-editors, plus arty-party chitchat, have shown in the past month that Hartford does make sense to thousands of people. But his view that art should follow only a middle road...