Word: shouting
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...SHOUT...
...opening book "The Great American Popular Singers," gets to the heart of Charles? vocal achievement: ?Sinatra, and Bing Crosby before him, had been a master of words. Ray Charles is a master of sounds. His records disclose an extraordinary assortment of slurs, glides, turns, shrieks, wails, breaks, shouts, screams and hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what is in his heart and mind or of one whose feelings are too intense for satisfactory verbal...
...They responded pretty negatively,” he adds. “There was sort of an attempt to shout me down as I was speaking...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Quack Science Middlesex University academics comparing the quacks made by ducks in London with those heard in the South West of Britain claimed the birds have regional accents. While the Cockney ducks' quack echoes a shout or a laugh, the researchers said, the call of their Cornish cousins resembles a giggle. Can duck devolution be far behind...
...times these explanatory passages will likely prove tedious for readers in-the-know. Thomas-Graham’s caricatures of Princeton socialites are priceless, but one wonders whether the author has adopted her subjects’ name-dropping tendencies. The acknowledgments at the beginning of the book include shout-outs to Jack Welch, the former General Electric CEO; Tina Brown, the celebrity journalist who edited The New Yorker; Vernon Jordan, a trusted adviser to President Clinton; and—of course—University President Lawrence H. Summers...