Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the Horn. In Newcastle, Australia, awakened by police from a sound snooze in the front seat of his car in the middle of the street, Albert T. Jeans indignantly complained...
...seed of future victory." he said. "I hope the party transforms itself into one gigantic recruiting service. Cromwell's army of Roundheads marched into battle singing hymns, and never once were they shaken, because he had drilled into them that they had a cause for which to work. Sound government is the greatest cause we could have today . . . Except for the support of some discerning Democrats it is the Republican Party that fights for responsible, sensible and progressive policy in government...
...publicized by a full throated chorus of movie and record company pressagents. With Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess about to be released, the record makers have pressed nearly 30 Porgy albums, ranging in style from Overstuffed Country Club to Tubular Cool. Columbia has issued excerpts from the sound track with Cab Calloway dubbed in as Sportin' Life in place of Sammy Davis Jr., who sings the role in the movie.* The sampling is generous, and the sound is refulgent, but most of the performances lack a properly dramatic cutting edge. Notable exceptions: Calloway and Baritone Robert McFerrin...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel, disinfected but still getting the best movie treatment of any of his works...
...county supervisors - who may be imitated by other arch-segregationist Virginia communities - said they did not act last week "in defiance of any law or of any court." Legally, they may be right: the schools under court order to integrate will not exist. Morally, their position had an odd sound: "Above all, we do not act with hostility toward the Negro people of Prince Edward County." The Richmond Times-Dispatch (circ. 134,360) cheered: "Your firm determination not to have mixed schools in your county is understood and supported throughout Virginia. Do not let yourselves be pushed around. Continue...