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Word: soundness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then you've got to become selective," he said. "You have to learn to 'feel' particularly good sounds, such as the jazz sound of Billie Holiday, or the Pentacostal sounds from the line of Aretha Franklin... or the Blues of John Lee Hooker," he added...

Author: By Mel M. Marinkovic, | Title: Blake Advises Third Stream Composers | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

...dark silhouettes clipping toward them across the water. Skipper Kimheng Phonsawat, 47, did not wait to identify them. Crouching low over his wheel, he instantly directed both his boats to slash their nets and make for nearby Ko Kut Island at full throttle. "I could tell by the sound that the other boats had 300-h.p. engines," he recalled. "As one of them pulled alongside, we came under rifle fire." Three of Kimheng's crew were killed, but then the attacking craft inexplicably veered off. Kimheng made it safely to port and next morning returned to the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Jolly Roger Still Flies | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

George Burns, who does an agreeable turn as Mr. Kite, the mayor of Heartland, explains that the idea of a second band worried everyone: "We didn't know how they would sound." Well, they sound all right, enough like the Beatles to be respectful, enough not like them to take note of the eleven years that have gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oh, Yes! Oh, No! | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...have a car and the inclination, Robert Palmer is playing at Music Hall in Lenox on Saturday. Chances are, however, you will want to save the car for Sunday to see either The New Riders of the Purple Sage (playing that now-ubiquitous LA sound) or Gary Burton (for fine jazz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

...stuff of George Carlin's comedy is words. He makes them sound nice as he says them, but more importantly, his comedy reveals words for what they are--artificial symbols for items and concepts that exist in reality. Like fantasies, words are creations of the human mind; if there were no human minds, there would be no words...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

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