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Word: melodye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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At Dartmouth College the spring equivalent of Winter Carnival. Green Key Weekend, was celebrated with customary abandon Fraternities gathered to match musical ability in an afternoon long melody contest known as the campus hums" and student drivers piloted chariots pulled by companions in a traditional "recreation" of the ancient Greek...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, WITH COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | Title: Spring Spurs Student Parties Across U.S. | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

Rock has produced a few top piano thumpers - Fats Domino, Huey Smith - but none burned with the passion of Jerry Lewis. Sam Phillips, who had started Sun Records in Memphis, sold the contract of his major star, Elvis Presley, to RCA in 1955 for the then unheard-of sum, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Few Rounds with the Killer | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

A couple's "our song" presupposes an enduring and developing relationship of which the melody will be the theme. Every year on their anniversary, House Speaker Tip O'Neill sings I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time to his wife of 41 years, Mildred Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: They're Playing Ur-Song | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Viewed that way, it is not without its value. The most important revelation in Reagan's speech may have been its mood and manner, the theme of bipartisanship that ran through it. The absence of accusation imparted a tone of cool reason. If we can believe this subtle melody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President: Entertainment over Substance | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Those who have come to appreciate her old voice will be glad to know that it still floats through in its purest form in the jazzy and introspective "All the Love." She also goes back to her old European melodic style in 'Suspended in Gaffa." The incomprehensible lyrics follow a...

Author: By Michael Hasselmo, | Title: A Separate World | 1/19/1983 | See Source »

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