Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bessie McCoy retired from the stage in 1924, died in 1931. Long years have passed, and she is, whenever you hum Cuddle Up a Little Closer, not forgotten. But, dear friend, never a show girl, ever a star...
Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and Hum 5 lecturer during the second term, said yesterday that the Committee on Educational Policy approved last year his proposal to suspend lectures in Hum 5 during this term's Reading Period. Sections will meet once during the period to fulfill the old requirement that instruction be given for the full term in freshman courses...
...This Reading Period was planned by special arrangement with the CEP," White said. "I haven't really studied the new Faculty plan." White has lectured in Hum 5 since 1952 and said that he had "long felt that the reading period should be an option for every instructor...
...classic nouns of assemblage--"a gaggle of geese," "a pride of lions"--the English man of words Eric Partridge once added some modern variants--"a column of journalists," "a suavity of diplomats." In terms like these, one formula for a successful musical is a hum of songs and a garter of chorus girls. Winthrop House has combined Leonard Bernstein with Radcliffe, and On the Town results...
Busoti's work is also written for the voice. Miss Berberian is here required to hum, chant and rasp in at least five different languages (she concludes by moaning "Mush, straight ahead, mush") both at the audience and into the occasionally accompanying grand piano. Miss Berberian has one of the few voices I have ever heard that is equal to such a task. Her superb control and truly magnificent versatility enabled her to present a most triumphant reading of this unusually demanding work...