Word: singsonging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going from odd job to odd job, he tried acting. He saw an ad in the paper for would-be actors at the American Negro Theater. But he talked in a singsong island accent that made people collapse with laughter. Buying a small radio, he began to listen to the pure tones of the network announcers, repeating after them their every rounded phrase, commercials and all. When he went back to the American Negro Theater some months later...
Died. Theodore Roethke, 55, poet and professor of English at the University of Washington, who built his spare verse upon recollections of his hothouse childhood (his father was a commercial gardener in Saginaw, Mich.), blending the imagery of orchid, loam and garden creature with deceptively simple singsong; of a heart attack; on Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound, Wash...
...ominously that "in more extreme forms it is associated with schizophrenia." Yet he conceded that his warning came only "after considerable wrestling of the spirit." Last year while he was confirming new members at the Holy Innocents' parish in Corte Madera, the clergy and congregation burst into spontaneous singsong. "Dyoso ki-i-yeno mayashi yekatona masi yano ma yenda ya kotani masiki." Pike was perturbed, but he waited to consult a diocesan commission-including a theologian, two psychiatrists, and a parish priest who practices glossolalia-which is preparing a scholarly report on the subject. Then he held his tongue...
...this is amiably flavorsome matzo-ball soup opera. Gertrude Berg is flawless in her comic timing, wry-arch in gesticulation, a singsong bird of prey who pounces on the feeblest line for a resounding laugh. For wit, there are Jewish folk inflections; for character, stereotypes; for comic insight, racial in-group jokes. Following up on his 1959 hit, A Majority of One, Spigelgass proves that he can bring in greenback gushers without any risky drilling for dramatic art. He is a situation tinker, and his vocation is to be not a playwright but a millionaire...
While the earth turned on its daily round and Mariner II cruised toward Venus, JPL's three great radio dishes, at Johannesburg, South Africa, Woomera, Australia, and Goldstone, Calif., picked up Mariner's reports. They were received as a quavering, singsong radio signal, then translated by a computer into an endless series of letters printed on a broad band of paper. Out of the apparently meaningless melange of characters, Mariner men in JPL's control room deciphered their spacecraft's chatter...