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...slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front. They inspected cave dwellings of two or more well-swept rooms with an earthen shelf for the family bed, an earthen fireplace and an earth-rirnmed pen for the goat. They saw signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Escorted Adventure | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...discs of love songs, recorded in wild, mountainous Herzegovina, have irregular, formless lines, queer vocal embellishments. Stranger still are the heroic songs, long, rambling tales of adventure and battle (the longest takes twelve hours to sing; many are several thousand lines long). They are chanted to a singsong type of melody, half speech, half music, whose short phrases are repeated with endless monotony. Under the voice runs a twanging countermelody, plucked out on the one-stringed gusla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Patient Listener | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting a pornographic fairy tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...missionary to China, 58-year-old Willys Peck was born in Tientsin, has spent 35 years in the foreign service, 31 of them in China. He speaks Chinese, in all its intricate, singsong dialects, like a native scholar, and has been known to spin entrancing Chinese narratives of his own invention by the hour, in fluent, flawless Mandarin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peck's Good Boy | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...talks like him, resembles him no further. Singer Ruth Terry (Alexander's Ragtime Band] reveals that she has not forgotten how to sell a song; Songstress Gertrude Niesen is scarcely given a chance to. Silly shot: Comedian Eddie Foy Jr. giving commands to his platoon in such a singsong voice that the platoon breaks into a conga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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