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...text. Basses--storm up that chromatic scale on "Sie noch so brummen." Brummen means, well, movement, confusion, like the French brouiller, boulverser. Make beautiful German vowels people: "Sie noch". And sopranos, pull that C-natural in measure 15 for everything it's worth. It makes the most ghastly chord...
...important influence on the rock scene, both in England and America, from early 1966 to late 1967 when the Beatles released Sergeant Pepper's. The "San Francisco Sound" and the "heavy" English sound are all derivative of Beck's work on Over, Under, Sideways, Down. His emphasis on solid chord progression and his use of electronic distortion gave his music the sledge hammer quality we associate with Jimi Hendrix and Grace Slick. It was during this period that Beck was doing his most famous work: "Shapes of Things," "Hot House of Omagarashid," and "Jeff's Boogie...
...Philadelphia, with its one-third black population and the highest incidence of black gang violence in the country, Rizzo's campaign strikes on one level a blatantly racist chord, although on another it appeals to legitimate fears of whites and some blacks as well. His overwhelming strength lies in the white community. Even Longstreth forces predict that up to 25% of the city's Republicans will cross party lines to vote for Rizzo. During the primary, Rizzo did not campaign in the black neighborhoods. He has since altered his strategy only to the point of an occasional stop...
...labor-management-public agreement and enforced largely by voluntary compliance are more palatable to the nation. They could well work?if Nixon can create the necessary national spirit. For that reason, the President's flag waving on TV was not at all irrelevant. "He may have struck a chord," said a Democratic political leader in Washington. "Any time that a President appeals to the national conscience, no matter how schmaltzy his words, he is going to get some response...
Richard Condon strikes a chord of universality at the very beginning of his new novel. Given enough time, and allowing for certain obvious exceptions-Moby-Dick and the Hardy Boys' Hunting for Hidden Gold come to mind-almost every novel since the invention of movable type could have been called, with poetry and justice, The Vertical Smile. The imagination turns jelly-kneed: War and Vertical Smiles, Remembrance of Smiles Vertical, The Sun Also Smiles Vertically. Condon thought up the title first, however, and he picks up the marbles. No one will ever slip a better description of the exterior...