Word: cuckoos
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...garbage pail, shoveling coal at all hours of the day & night, digging after dark in a garden by the Masons' windows. As soon as he went out, his telephone began ringing. Then they began hearing hit, new clocks-a half hourly loud chimer and an especially vigorous cuckoo clock-right above their bedroom. The Masons moved their bed into the living room, a maneuver that did not escape Smith's stethoscope. The clocks moved into the room directly above. Once during a three-day absence Smith left his radio blaring away and the police were called in. Smith...
Jean Ritchie Sings (Elektra LP). Kentucky's Jean Ritchie sings with sweet clarity and mountain-folk feeling old songs traditional in her area. Among her best: Hush, Little Baby, The Cuckoo, Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair...
Music of Frederick Delius (Concert Arts Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin; Capitol). The famous On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and four other pieces in a style whose closest artistic relatives are the misty pastorals of Painters Turner and Corot...
...Time of the Cuckoo (by Arthur Laurents) concerns Americans in a Venetian pensione, and some of the more controversial points of international love. While a pair of elderly Babbitts dutifully take in the sights, a young American painter, despite his love for his wife, strays with his worldly landlady; and a lonely spinster, Leona Samish (Shirley Booth), becomes involved with an antique-shop owner (Dino DiLuca).All the more romantic about love for never having known the reality, Leona has a saddening experience. Not only does she find that the man is married; he cannot pay for the garnets...
...writers to exhibit two colliding traditions of love. He wisely seems to suggest that there is something to be said on both sides, though his heroine's plight with her merchant of Venice seems a bit extreme, a little like the setup for an Ethel Merman song. But Cuckoo offers some sound enough comments, and some effective scenes. And there is the opportunity for Actress Booth to display her fine gifts for comedy and pathos...