Word: dulcetly
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Students fresh from summer vacation will find a campus consumed by the dulcet tones of jackhammers, backhoes and construction workers madly riveting girders...
Students fresh from summer vacation will find a campus consumed by the dulcet tones of jackhammers, backhoes and construction workers madly riveting girders...
...longer did Wilder risk racial polarization by talking about putting prejudice to the test. Now 58, his hair silver, his manner reassuring and his smile infectious, Wilder had grown far too adroit to speak of racial issues in anything other than soft, almost dulcet, tones. Throughout the 1980s, Wilder had consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop...
...clearly designed "The Arrival," which is the first cut on this album to showcase the vast talents of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The meat of the piece is an offbeat dialogue between the dulcet tones of Marsalis' muted trumpet and the strong chords of Roberts' piano. The mood in this song is a light, happy one, reminiscent of Coltrane in parts. But the tone is definitely more mellow than some of the other cuts on this album...
DIED. Karen Carpenter, 32, dulcet-voiced singing half, opposite her pianist-arranger brother Richard, of the squeaky-clean Carpenters; of an apparent heart attack (she had suffered earlier from anorexia nervosa); in Downey, Calif. Since 1969, their ballads (Close to You, We've Only Just Begun) have sold 80 million records and tapes, won three Grammy Awards...