Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tryout towns from San Francisco to Boston, new shows were primping, polishing and rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush...
...These things happen in all progressive movements," muses the habitual criminal, Kinney, and there is gruesome comedy in Pryor's hypocritical proclamation of "a new era of sound interrelationships between inmate and administration in the prisons of America." Novelist Wiegand has effectively told a prickly parable of power and evil, but offers no solutions. He leaves Narrator Sharon with a new "case load," and with everything at dear old S.S.P.C. back to abnormal...
...master voice," free of imperfections, is recorded on a single master tape, which is then played on one of the four machines in the front of the language lab. Students sitting in their individual, sound-proofed booths hear the master voice through their earphones, and then repeat into the microphone what they have just heard--or thought they heard. Both master voice and student voice are recorded, so that, in a later playback session, each pupil can hear his mistakes and act to correct them...
...quad requires only an application to the Dean's Office, admission to an eating club, however, is through a secret election. But Lippincott insists that Princeton undergraduates do not regard any group as "second-class citizens, or a group set apart." Woodrow Wilson Lodge contains a "damn good, sound cross-sectional group," he says...
...view of the American trade deficit, both the trade concessions and the loan prepayment are especially opportune. Both were made possible by sound fiscal policies and a progressive attitude towards world trade. If the United States is incapable of these enlightenments, it should at least refrain from extending an anachronistic protectionism...