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Titled Say It Right! (more properly, Say It Correctly), the disk provides pronunciation for the names of 202 composers, starting with Adolphe-Charles Adam ("Ah-DAHM") and ending with Eugene Ysaye ("OY-jen Ee-SI-ya"). It also includes 134 operas, 55 ballets, 47 tone poems and suites, 62 conductors, 61 instrumentalists, 72 singers, ten operatic and orchestral groups, and 161 musical terms. From this generous supply every player must, of course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill...
...Oy Birligile. Ataturk liberated law, education and marriage from the mullahs; turned mosques into granaries; switched the day of rest from Friday to Sunday; tossed out the Islamic calendar and ordered in the Gregorian calendar of the Western world. He made suffrage universal, adopted the metric system, ordered all Turks to take on last names, took the first census in Turkish history. Harems were forbidden and monogamy became...
...most familiar phrase in the Turkish National Assembly during these electric days was Oy Birligile, meaning by unanimous vote. Opposed, Ataturk was ruthless. One evening in 1926, he gave a champagne party for foreign diplomats; it turned into an all-night carousal. Returning home at dawn, the diplomats saw the corpses of the entire opposition leadership, among them Kemal's old friends, hanging in the town square...
...Finnish subscriber is a bookselling firm called Rautatiekirjakauppa OY, a name which just fitted the 22-character limit. But the same company is also TIME'S newsstand distributor in Finland, and its name and address (Koydenpunojankatu 2. Helsinki) is a constant challenge to the stick-to-it-iveness of typists who handle their correspondence...
...full of waxen flowers and fruit, with a marble scroll curling through the flowers, and SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after old Shiner. Hear...