Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together with the famous Alleluia, is one of the most important records issued this year. Quite aside from its other merits, it is a considerable tour-de-force, in that it solves a serious problem for American composers: an English text can often make the most exalted choral music sound like Gilbert and Sullivan, or worse. Some of the best of Handel and Purcell sounds more than a little ridiculous because of this...
...recording its great merit is that it keeps perfect balance; most choral records sound as if there were twenty sopranos for every bass. However, the transfer from tape to disk was sloppily done. The review copy had serious pre-echo, intemittent hiss, and a series of clicks which sounded like liconic castanets. Furthermore, neither record has any lead-in grooves; so that the first moments of each side are lost unless the needle is put on with a loving and very steady hand...
...same almost matchless quality of choral singing. The assortment of short pieces has more variety than the mass, and gives the HGC-RCS the chance to display considerable breadth of technique. They approach each carol with appropriate vigor or with calm, so that they are somehow able to sound festive without sounding like the YWCA Christmas party...
...designed to give the alert force 30% more range. The Air Force has contracted for 30 test supersonic delta-wing B58 bombers for phasing in beside the medium B-473. Already SAC has its first operational intercontinental guided missile: Snark, a lumbering air-breather that cannot break the sound barrier but can dump a thermonuclear payload (as it proved in a flight test last week) on a target less than five miles in diameter at a range of 5,000 miles. A really hot Air Force prospect is Rascal, an air-to-ground missile for firing from B-47s that...
...part of its participation in Argentina's Twelfth Annual Aviation Week at Buenos Aires, the U.S. offered faster-than-sound joy rides in an F-102 fighter. For protocol's sake, the first invitation went from the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Paul S. Emrick, to President Pedro Aramburu. Last week, to Emrick's surprise, Aramburu stepped out of a helicopter at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport ready for his ride...