Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities across the U.S., as well as in dozens of movie houses in California, was a 45-minute documentary, Justice and Caryl Chessman, scripted by a sometime San Quentin inmate (forgery), and bent to the cause of clemency for Chessman. On jukeboxes across the land, an imitation folk song called The Ballad of Caryl Chessman was mournfully urging, "Let him live, let him live, let him live...
...Chessman case had stirred up "quite a surprising amount of interest" in South America. In Brazil, circulators of a save-Chessman petition claim more than 2,500,000 signatures. In The Netherlands, record dealers are profiting from brisk demand for a new platter, in Dutch, called The Death Song of Chessman. The London News Chronicle recently editorialized that "the great American nation is humiliated because of the agony of Chessman," and the London Daily Herald added that the day Chessman is executed "will be a day when it will be rather unpleasant to be an American." Buenos Aires' Critica...
Only a few of the terrorists were caught -a ragged bunch of teenagers, made wild by hashish, who babbled incoherently about some juju rites in which they had been branded on the chest with five cuts that were supposed to make them invulnerable to bullets. But the song they had sung was well known-"General Moumié Gets Five Million Soldiers." The "general" referred to: Félix-Roland Moumié, 34, who lives in exile in Nkrumah's Ghana...
...little girls, 9 and 11, saucily tossed their blonde curls in the Dallas bookstore and shrilled into song: "How much is that book in the window?/ The one that says all the smart things./ How much is that book in the window?/ I do hope to learn all it brings!" They were plugging a novel titled Alpaca, a weird pitch for Utopian plutocracy authored and published by their daddy, Oilman H. L. Hunt, 71, long the fearless Big Daddy to many a far-right crusade (Wisconsin's late Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, Facts Forum, radio's current Life...
...patties and croquettes on thousands of tables at Lincoln Day dinners and Democratic rallies. In Washington, at a wingding sponsored by the D.C. League of Republican Women Voters, Dick and Pat Nixon listened without a wince to a chorus of college girls who shrilly serenaded them with a new song, to the tune of Clementine...