Word: nasalli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proboscis monkeys from Borneo. Roxanne, the female, looks like an ordinary monkey, but Cyrano, the male, has a long, drooping, flexible nose that would make the fortune of a TV comedian. Perhaps Roxanne admires the nose, but it has no use except to give Cyrano's cry a nasal, down-East twang...
...finest music on the program was Prokofiev's Sonata No. 1, which is dedicated to Oistrakh. It opened with dark, slightly nasal low tones, sang its way up to the bright blossom of a double-stop and continued to sing to the last gay note. Highlights: a section of muted runs up and down the fingerboard that felt like being brushed with feathers, and a section that had the mysterious beauty of a girl singing to herself by a forest pool. When it was over, the crowd was too moved to cheer until the violinist came back...
...Wilson; buttoned, homespun Coolidge more than Harding; Hoover, the self-made great engineer in a day when almost every man dreamed he was an engineer, more than Coolidge; Roosevelt, at his fireside, more than Hoover; plain Harry Truman more than Roosevelt; and Eisenhower, America's idealistic, practical, slightly nasal voice, more than Truman. Was this trend, as John Adams would have suspected, the inevitable result of the leveling factor in democracy? Or had it a subtler and more contemporary meaning...
...picture offers one spiffy spoof of the '205, a Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note of prosperous disillusion. "There won't ever be no patter of little feet in my house," drones one pickled tomato, "unless I want to rent some mice." Best of all, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee sing real well, and pretty often...
...dramas was put across by exquisite, formalized gestures, e.g., a tearless eye elaborately wiped on a sleeve, a circular motion of a hand on breast to indicate meditation, a ritual lifting of feet as actors entered the stage. All these were perfectly punctuated by the gaudy sounds of nasal voices, rattling drums, clanging gongs...