Word: chordingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finish, though, is not quite what the audience expects. The almost sappy major chord of the conclusion is suddenly modulated into a slyly suspenseful and sophisticated dissonance. The sophistication may not be real, but it is realistic. Broadway is pretty much like what Scriptwriters Ruth and Augustus Goetz and Director Sidney Lumet...
...lady was dancing in the aisle, and was ejected. A single finger beat with monomaniacal purpose on a single piano key, a one-chord keynote to a kaleidoscope of sound...
...start the story, the unmistakable voice soared like a chord out of the TV screen. In the end Narrator Walter Cronkite intoned: "This was the man . . . When will there be another like him?" The marrow in between was a combination of film clips, photographs and dialogue lovingly composed by Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk...
There is, undeniably, a chord of tastefulness which beats quietly beneath the loud cacophony. Aesthetic quality is recognized when presented, not immediately perhaps, but eventually. And in the colleges, the few who choose and act and invent are tacitly recognized and admired. The admiration may lead to imitation, and the imitation to experimentation, and again, possible and hopefully, a renaissance of sprit, new color appearing amidst the grey...
...Silver Chord. In Dearborn, Mich., Gerald Kiwak was puzzled at the parakeet sitting on his fence squawking "luzonone-fournineninetwo," until his mother tried the number, returned the bird to its relieved owner-trainer...