Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traces of the Johnnie Ray wail. They were bothered by the sound of Peggy's gentle voice struggling against a clattering rhythm section, galloping violins, and something that roared like the M-G-M lion. The overall effect was a little like an echoing nightmare in a subway express. But it didn't bother the fans of "the new sound" (TIME, Oct. 29): they were buying the platter faster than any Decca record since Good Night, Irene. Peggy Lee's attitude: "I sing the way the song seems to want to be sung...
...last-ditch Verdi-lovers turned out to express their disapproval, greeted the opening curtain with whistles, catcalls and shouts of "Vergogna, vergogna!" (Shame, shame!). But the ruckus was feeble compared with the uproar they raised over Gian-Carlo Menotti's Consul and Juan Jose Castro's Proserpina (TIME, Feb. 5, 1951; March...
...reading Crockford's last week, Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, said: "Most unfair and unseemly." Speculated a high churchman: "Whoever the author is, he belongs to the militant low church. [Moreover], no high dignitary, whatever his views . . . would express himself in so petulant a manner or make petty references to shades of purple . . . These definitely rule out anyone of importance."* Said the Church of England Newspaper (low church) : "Whoever the writer may be, he is a man distinguished by incisiveness of thought and accuracy in the use of language...
...Ball Express (Universal-International) is a tardy tribute to the U.S. Army transportation crews which sped gas, ammunition and food to Patton's Third Army when it outran its supply lines during the August 1944 Allied breakthrough in France. Red Ball Express (railroadese for top priority freight) captures some of the excitement of its subject through wartime combat film pieced out with action scenes shot at Fort Eustis...
...Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME...