Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked a political miracle in New Hampshire. Hardly anybody in the state could remember one word of Estes Kefauver's formal speeches. He had drawn such small crowds (except for a rousing reception at a Dartmouth basketball game) that, five days before the election, he was in deep despondency. In Keene (pop. 15,638), only 30 people came out to hear him, and he was introduced by the mayor, who was running as a Truman delegate. In Claremont (pop. 12,800), Kefauver took one look at the 60 people scattered in the big auditorium, then invited them...
...percussions over a loudspeaker sounded like mice in the attic. The best thing about Partch's music was that it seldom got in the way of the actors, who half-spoke, half-sang the lines. After four curtain calls for the actors, Composer Partch, in deep purple shirt and tweed jacket, came onstage to a roar of bravos...
...Stengel was truculently happy about a lot of things. As if answering unspoken criticism, and, as usual, rarely mentioning a player by name, Stengel talked with pride of his world champions: "I got the best outfield in the business . . . I'm five deep ... No other club's got more than two . . . What's the matter with Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling? Nothing! They could play for any team. I got those three kids [Mickey Mantle, Jackie Jensen and Bob Cerv]. They can hit; they can run; they can throw...
...been unveiling their new models with all the calculated coyness of a middle-aged stripper. By last Friday when Nash 'came out,' the lineup was complete, if dull. There had been some artful padding and plastering of gaudy makeup, but for most manufacturers the changes weren't even skin deep...
There is an obvious difficulty in presenting a program of sensitive music night after night, year after year. For perfection each piece should carry with it the freshness which comes with deep feeling, the excitement which comes from the realibing that a song is emotionally genuine. For these reasons the music of Bessie Smith, the early Billie Holliday, and the always original Sidney Bechet have achieved a permanent place in American musical history. They are spontaneous, always active in an original sense...