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Word: scalese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the best church music, Davison finds that the technical elements which make a "sacred" style include an irregular rhythmic structure which fulfills the texts, rather than a distracting, strongly-accented, steadily-beaten pulse. He thinks music written in modes other than the familiar major and minor scales is effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Davison's 'Church Music' Describes Four Century Trend to Mediocrity | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

Sirloin & Champagne. By 5:30, after an hour and 15 minutes of singing, she was back in her dressing room. She rested for half an hour, then downed a 1-lb. sirloin and a glass of champagne, while her hairdresser built up her pompadour for Cosi. After an hour'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano Doubleheader | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

-* Phil Murray does not believe in the escalator clause (which links pay scales to the cost of living) because it can go both ways. If he did, steelworkers would have got an automatic wage boost along with 1,250,000 railroad workers, last week, when the cost of living shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Whose Responsibility? | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Plain Talker. But no one was truer to the image of the ruggedly free businessman N.A.M. likes to see than its new president, William J. Grede (rhymes with Brady), 54, boss of Milwaukee's Grede Foundries, Inc. Elected to replay William H. Ruffin, president of Durham, N.C.'s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Toward Better Understanding | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Last week Zerbee announced that the Navy had started buying an improved instrument, the Zerbee Celestial Fix Finder. A nightmare of gears and scales and dials, it looks something like the dream sweetheart of a mechanical monster. It has talent, however. When a navigator wants to find the position of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Figure-Killer | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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