Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great and good friend (and fellow Lenin prizewinner) Cyrus Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist, was not all K. had hoped for. Present were about 125 U.S. and Canadian businessmen (mostly associates of Eaton's) and a flock of Tass reporters. Though Khrush got a chance to sing his Communist theme, most of the guests deliberately passed up his offer to answer questions from the floor; one disgruntled guest was heard to mutter during K.'s speech: "Oh, sit down, you s.o.b...
...offense was pledging an estimated $503,000 in securities belonging to three customers as collateral for loans without the customers' knowledge. The exchange's last such case was in 1938, when Richard Whitney, five times president of the exchange, was expelled-and later sent to Sing Sing-for pledging customer securities on loans...
Three hours later, after many and a few songs, Pete Seeger the situation; the symbolism, those who cared, was reversed. dismay at a society where controlled machines descrate even Star Spangled Banner he request that the audience stand and, without companiment, sing the anthem's verse. "Think particularly," he "of the last lines: 'O say does that Spangled Banner still wave o'er land of the free and the home of brave." For a few minutes this dressed man, his seasick-green and red socks eminently his left hand moving up and down to control the collective voice...
...must be admitted that the Glee Club performs the more "classical" numbers with greater skill than it does Ten Thousand Men of Harvard. This, of course, is attributable to the quality of the music, and it would be ridiculous to sing the Veritas March with the same delicacy necessary for a Monteverdi madrigal. If the football songs are not sung with the highest artistic quality, they are at least rendered with a great deal of spirit...
...like a well-executed locomotive yell, at a relentlessly accelerating rate of rah-rah and haha, and if the last year somehow loses momentum, it does not much matter-the audience needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly by France's Nicole Maurey, by a sort of Elvis Presley with muscles called Fabian, and by a starlet known as Tuesday Weld...