Word: hush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...
...Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens; RCA Victor). A hit comprehensible only to the darkling adolescent ear. One of the nation's top singles, evolved partly from a South African chant, it warns in its insistent, dronelike way of a lion lurking near the village-but "Hush, my darling / Don't fear, my darling / The lion sleeps tonight." What Variety calls, with more truth than poetry, "a sleeper...
This is a dead city, a battlefield where vultures circle overhead and the smell of panic is stronger than the stench of the unswept, palm-fringed boulevards. The shops are barred, the restaurants deserted. Hour after hour, day and night, the tomblike hush is broken only by the distant crump of exploding mortar shells, the whoom of bazookas, the crack of anti-aircraft cannon, and the short, chattering bursts of machine guns...
Providing linguistic-historical comments on the hush-hush Anglo-Saxon words which occur with distinct regulari- ty in Cancer will be Morton Bloomfield, professor of English. The minister who will participate is Robert W. Haney '56, author of Comstockery in America, who is associated with the First Unitarian Church of Boston...
...Glozer: Children's Concert (Wonderland). With the aid of some infectiously gay patter and a sunny, open voice, Singer Glazer plays on a squealing suburban audience as expertly as he strums on the guitar. Thirteen selections, including Hush, Little Baby, Jimmie Crack Corn, Skip...