Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book, Adventure in Jade, on his expeditions up & down the U.S. He even took his hobby to work. At sales' meetings Businessman Kraft would hand out jade lucky charms from his workshop, sandwich in a little pep talk. "Rub this between the palms of the hand until warm," he would say, "make a wish, then go out and work like hell...
...more than 50 years, usually on a warm spring night, Harvard Yard has echoed with the familiar cry. "Oh, Rinehart!" It is the summons which brings students tumbling out of their rooms, whips them up to water fights, raids, and occasionally riots. It is Harvard's great rebel yell, but just how it first got started, few Harvardmen ever knew...
...fado is more sentimental. It differs, too, from the singing of other Portuguese fadistas, just as Bessie Smith's blues differ from Pearl Bailey's. Amalia, who is steeped in her country's Moorish musical tradition, alternates a passionate, reedy wail with a tone of warm caress. She thinks that Rosemary Clooney's current song, Half as Much, is the closest thing to U.S. fado...
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos (Jennie Tourel; Haydn Society). The Greek legend of Ariadne appealed strongly to Haydn. When he was 58 he wrote a short, melodious and seldom-heard solo cantata in which the abandoned princess bemoans her fate. Mezzo-Soprano Tourel sings it in warm Italian. The accompaniment is played by Ralph Kirkpatrick on a recreated 18th century piano...
...sort of Andy Hardy family of Canada. It substitutes slick film-making for the real wonder, strangeness and nostalgia of childhood, and a rather heavy-handed coyness for the lightheartedness of the original. The most genuinely human touch in the picture is provided by Charles Boyer's warm performance as papa, and his impassioned delivery of a lecture about the facts of life & love to wide-eyed Bibi...