Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salzburg valley below. Last week the tourists had an extra surprise in store for them. Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most furious individualists in modern art (TIME, July 12, 1948), had taken over the barracks of the old fortress for a summer art school, and was making it echo like a nest of angry young eagles...
...Hand. "These debates will not be without a tomorrow," said Mendès-France. Conservative Figaro was inclined to agree with him: "Many of the young ... by giving their votes to this man whose words will echo in the political life of tomorrow-if only because he has made the Socialist Party come out of its solitude-have shown above all a desire for a change and renewal... A page has been turned." Like Aneurin Bevan, promising Mendès-France had the air of being "the next Premier...
Fish is a commonplace lampoon of poor singers and non-sequitur lyrics. But There's a New Sound is an unrelenting and fairly unforgettable satire on such gimmicks as echo chambers and dog barks (as in Doggie in the Window). There's a New Sound depends on a Donald Ducklike cackle and a jigging country beat. Its chorus gets repeated five times (each time a tone higher) and its melody uses just two notes, "for simplicity...
...evening largely lacks lure, it is perhaps because Rodgers & Hammerstein have gone at show business with no pungency or point of view-as fainthearted satirists, routine sentimentalists. Where they might illuminate, they merely echo; and their show cannot be excused its multitude of clichés because a few are kidded. Me and Juliet is neither magical about its subject, nor the McCoy...
...effect of Churchill's blast, but the Egyptians and their noisy press took his remarks as a blanket endorsement of Churchill's position. Next day he managed to convince Egypt's emerging strong man, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, that the U.S. is not merely an echo of Churchill. Result: Egypt promised to "make no drastic moves" until Dulles gets back home...