Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualities of the concert. Bach's Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, however, was disappointing in just these respects. The tempo was too slow, the words were totally inaudible in the women's parts, and the sopranos lost their nerve half-way through. Their tone lost all conviction, and the pitch, already shaky, deteriorated...
...marred by singing that borrowed too much from the coyness of musical comedy. However, her acting more than made up for her vocal failings Mary Duffy as Dame Carruthers was, with the Yeomen, the only real musical disappointment of the evening. Totally oblivious to rhythm, projection, conductor, and pitch, she barely got through her own number and came near to ruining the ensembles in which she took part...
...each evening. Instead of worrying about it, the carioca has invented a game called carioca roulette, in which he climbs into an elevator around shut-off time and takes his chances on making it to his floor. Thousands lose every night, often spending three or four hours in stifling, pitch-black gloom. Not long ago, seven Rio cops hit on a particularly Brazilian solution for ridding Rio of its 17,000 beggars; they began leading the mendigos into a truck, lugging them out to the Guarda River west of the city and drowning them. Did the beggars riot when...
...allies. Intelligence sources reported last week that the Chinese and Russians, who have been quarreling about the transit of Russian aid across China by rail, have reached an agreement that will speed the flow. North Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh went off to make a pitch for even more aid in Peking, Moscow and East Berlin, where the East German Communists are holding their party congress. From the Communist camp outside Viet Nam, a river of arms and economic aid flows into the north that amounts to more than $1 billion a year-and is almost...
Once again this weekend Harvard will have to do without spunky second base man Nelly Houston. The former Rhode Island Schoolboy star had his nose broken by a Tufts pitch: he will be replaced by Dick Manchester...