Word: ee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that's nearly middleaged, but I hate to think of it and I don't believe it. My hair is blonde but I give it a bit of fixing-I do. I have teeth that were made by some mechanic and I wear glasses, and my legs-ee lad, I'm glad I earn my money with my throat...
...everyone else writing busily in their notebooks, and began laboriously himself to copy the scrawl--it came out looking suspiciously like "Kbacc" which, he was told was a Russian home brew. Vag wondered vaguely whether Russians liked Scotch and sodas, or had a phrase for "bottoms up." "EE vwi!" the instructor screamed as he bounded from his chair and bore down threateningly on Vag. Vag froze in his seat and searched frankly for the word. "Da," he managed to utter tentatively, and then, when no lightning struck, "Da, da, da, da" he repeated enthusiastically, looking awfully intelligent about the whole...
...Heah go mah firs' bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee-BOOM! Go ahead...
...Listen to mah motor roar. Gr-r-row-owow! Now heah go another bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee BOOM! Go ahead...
Most-played of his orchestral works is the American Festival Overture, written for Koussevitzky in 1939, and based on a boys' street call "wee-awk-ee" (meaning "c'mon over"). This month the Overture is out on a record (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Kindler; Victor). The first major example of Schuman's music on disks, it is a lusty, cleanly written, skin-deep score. No atonalist, William Schuman composes with independent spirit, says of his music, "For better or worse, it sounds the way I want...