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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assisted by Carmen McRae. Both singers have a taste for vibrato, gratuitous grunts and wailing crescendos that achieve the remarkable effect of smearing some of the most singable lines ever written. On a United Artists album, Diahann Carroll, who appears as Clara in the movie, gets a chance to sing her own part and a number of other songs with the André Previn Trio (Previn was musical director of the film). Singer Carroll's personal Catfish Row apparently runs east from the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room, but at her best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Here Come de Honey Man | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

William M. Wexler '60, President of Hillel, faces the "packaging problem" of making the Hillel program attractive. If he interests one of the "non-committed" Jews into coming in for a folk-sing, shiriyah, a lasting attachment to Hillel may be formed. "It means a casual program among friends; you come to think of Hillel House as 'the rabbi's house,'" Wexler says. If no contact with Jewish tradition is made, the student neither identifies with or rebels against Judaism. When you start with nothing you can have no rebellion

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Jewish Students Profess Identity, Discard Belief | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...bring on the new by destroying the old; they deliberately violate the ancient taboos of their people, kill their livestock, stop cultivating their fields. "Sometimes they spend days sitting gazing at the horizon for a glimpse of the long-awaited ship or airplane; sometimes they dance, pray and sing in mass congregations, becoming possessed and 'speaking with tongues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Cargo Cults | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Baritone John Raitt and Songstress Janet Blair in a pleasant little sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...These Are My Hogs." Mutual funds sing a melodious song: cash in on a growing economy and build a valuable hedge against inflation. They have taken the specialized world of Wall Street and put it within reach of every man with enough money to buy a fund share, which is kept low-priced, usually between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Prudent Man | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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