Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monologue plugging NBC color. Of all the new musicals, the best was the simplest: The Lux Show (replacing the old Lux Theater), with blonde, willowy Rosemary Clooney. Whether delivering barrelhouse or blues, Songstress Clooney's voice has a distinctive cello quality that makes her refreshingly different from the sound-alike mass...
...What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?" So the U.S. might well ask (with Keats) at the alarming sound that was heard in the land last week. The same sort of sound had rent the air as General Washington was being pushed out of Brooklyn, as Napoleon went down at Waterloo, as the British in Kenya marched off against the Mau Mau. For Scotsmen in the U.S., normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band...
...accused the President of "a deliberate effort to placate the Negro vote." The ordinarily all-for-Ike Los Angeles Times took the opportunity to indict the Supreme Court for practicing "sociology" and sniffed that the President seemed to have decided on the Little Rock showdown not so much for sound domestic reasons as to please "our hired foreign friends...
...When Casals plays, it is no more possible to sort out the separate notes in the seamless flow of the music than it is to sort out the separate drops of water in a river. For Casals, a composition-from its first bar to its last-is one continuous sound...
...SOUND OF THUNDER (608 pp.) -Taylor Caldwell-Doubleday...