Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN IT CAME TO HUMAN QUALITY, JACQUELINE ONASSIS HAD PERFECT pitch. After her son John had read aloud at the 1979 dedication of the Kennedy library in Boston the poem by Stephen Spender that begins with the words "I think continually of those who were truly great," she brought out one of her most delicate exhalations and said, "I'd really like to meet Mr. Spender, and I'd like Caroline to meet...
...seem convinced is a hall mark of this mysterious generation, OK touts itself in small letters as "a carbonated 'beverage,'" with the last word in quotes--the hipsters who make "OK," one assumes, are too cool to use that technical word with a straight face. The slogan completes the pitch--no hi-strung shrill jingos here--"Everything is going...
Irony -- for which he has perfect pitch -- is his weapon of choice: "Alger Hiss always made his debut escorted by the Gods: He came to Washington with a reference from Felix Frankfurter and he went to Lewisburg ((prison)) with a reference to Frank Costello." In the sentence that opens an essay about one of his favorite subjects, the tragedy (or comedy) of the self-deluded rebel, Kempton dryly sums up another progressive hero: "Paul Robeson's was a career whose rise and fall were both tethered to his identity as a man of conspicuous color." Kempton's asperity...
...They tried a squeeze with two outs," Cicero said. "But there was some confusion on what pitch was called...
...physical dynamics of the story. However, the composer Randy Eng's complex jazz style demands an immense amount of flexibility and vocal range from the performers. Brown in particular sings the difficult melodies with clarity and accuracy, but even she has some trouble carrying off the double notes in pitch. Although the singing improves through the course of the performance, all the singers struggle noticeably at one time or another just to finish a phrase...