Word: pedaling
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...instrument, enables the musician to play as loudly as he wishes. He can also duplicate his notes over as many as four octaves, add reverberation or tremolo, and lighten or darken his tone quality. Vox has a similar device called an "ampliphonic stereo multi-voice" unit, to which a pedal may be attached to produce a "wah-wah" effect...
Such dispassion is all the more impressive now that the steam has gone out of the civil rights movement. Johnson could easily soft-pedal equal rights-many of the Confederacy's 70 U.S. district judges have done just that. But he goes on applying the law to the facts in every case. Says he: "I don't see how a judge who approaches these cases with any other philosophy, particularly if he was born and reared in the South, can discharge his oath and the responsibility of his office...
...birth control "demoralizing." In October 1966, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church declared that "we affirm and support programs of population control." Even the Roman Catholic Church, until recently a staunch battler against liberalized birth control and divorce laws wherever they turned up, has begun to soft-pedal its opposition. Last year such liberalized laws have been passed by the legislature in New York and Massachusetts where they had previously been blocked by Catholic pressure...
...with pride that their countryman had won the Grand Prix for painting, deflated with astonishment when they stood in front of one of Le Fare's "paintings"-a long sheet of shiny metal that captured their own images, then freakishly elongated them as they pressed the foot pedal that set the sheet in motion...
...Levin compose an Amen fugue to follow the sequence Dies irae. Levin's fugue was based on fragments left by Mozart which Sussmayr, for some obscure reason, preferred to leave untouched. Brief but masterful and prodigious, the fugue sported a long Brahmsian timpanum roll which acted as a tonic pedal bringing the fugue to conclusion. It was another plume for Levin's many chapeaux...