Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poems can be read or spoken, melodies can be played or whistled, but words and music were blended into song, and a song was written to be sung...
Somewhere in eastern Cuba, Dominican exiles lined up the team that would take over when the great day came-if it came. For Provisional President they picked soft-spoken Angel Morales, 50, Dominican Minister to Washington in the days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough...
...Alexander Cadogan, British delegate, then made a 10,000-word statement which he said was intended to set the record straight. Each side now has spoken twice and Cadogan said he would reply later to Nokrashy Pasha's speech of today...
...among thousands of apparently unrelated bits of "news" last week were two items as closely related as the horns of a dilemma. One was that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is going to establish a testing ground for atomic weapons somewhere in the Pacific. The other was a sentence spoken by a Republican presidential candidate, Harold Stassen: "The greatest basic competition of all history [Russia v. the U.S.] cannot really be decided...
Shakespeare's Henry V (spoken excerpts by Sir Laurence Olivier, with music composed and conducted by William Walton, Philharmonia Orchestra of London and Chorus; Victor, 8 sides). Walton's music was superbly tailored to its job: that of complementing Henry V's sights, speeches and sound. Put on its own (as in the battle music), Walton's score is disappointing. It serves best as an accompaniment to Olivier's spine-tingling recital of "Now entertain conjecture of a time" and the St. Crispin's Day speech. Performance: excellent...