Word: wail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philadelphia and Baltimore are only 100 miles apart along the Pennsylvania Railroad, but they were connected by a far stronger bond last week-one loud, anguished wail. As any student of ancient history will recall, both cities had pennants all locked up by mid-August: the Phils led the National League by four games, and the Orioles led the American by three. But last week the staggering Phils, who had since built up their lead to 62, were fighting for their lives, and the Birds had tumbled right out of the nest...
Lost. The show opened last week, playing six Manhattan locations in six nights, first in Mount Morris Park in Harlem, a neighborhood where the wail of police sirens is a part of the constant atmosphere. There all the big trucks staged an incongruous arrival, grunting and respirating into position on a baseball field while crowds gathered. Soon a rehearsing actor was standing in a tunic and sandals before a gaping group of Harlem youths. He tried to explain to them that in the play he is a character called Demetrius, who gets lost in the woods...
...funeral ship as well as his shapely daughter (Yugoslavia's Beba Loncar), and head south. All that stands in their way is a mutinous crew, a maelstrom and Sidney Pokier, a Moorish prince. He, too, dreams of the golden "Mother of Voices," but hears only the wail of his neglected Queen Rosanna Schiaffino. Pokier captures the vikings in a highly photogenic battle beside their shipwrecked hull...
...unhappy result is an undercurrent of anti-Semitism at small Midwestern colleges, which have lately enrolled many bright, as well as aggressive Eastern Jewish students. There is universal hatred of universal military service-ranging from intelligent questioning ("Isn't the Peace Corps more useful?") to the fatuous wail of a Princeton senior: "The Army doesn't pay enough to keep me in beer. I'd have to ask my father for money...
More impressive still was the second song, a mournful dirge for a executed man later proved innocent. The transition from the joyous love of anticipated happiness to the grief of love that can only wail its anguish was smooth; the atmosphere in Sanders changed almost instantaneously...