Word: stylistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There has been a vast change in the pronunciation of the average song stylist. To those who find lyrics incomprehensible as well as obscure. I can only offer this advice: 1) Make no distinction between vowels, because the singers themselves make none; 2) Do not worry if monosyllables are turned into polysyllables: 3) The expressions "doo doo doo doo" and "du whah, du whah" are not meant to be words, but are to create a rhythmical effect...
...Middleweight Chico Vejar took time out from his N.Y.U. drama studies to mix it up for ten rounds in the Garden with elderly (32) Stylist Billy Graham, and squeaked by with a split decision...
...Dior flat look-the French improvement on nature's design for a woman: If a stylist directs a woman to be flat one year and curved another year, and in each case offers the reason that the woman looks best that way, the stylist has to be wrong one of the times. If he is now wrong, why obey him ? If he was wrong before, then he is subject to error, and may be wrong still; why obey him? . . . If I had a wife, I'd beat her for this sheeplike following of irresponsible leaders...
...evening opera to come; perhaps he was wrong to show it in Manhattan at all. He also worried about the human element: "When I write a symphony," he says, "I know the orchestra and just how it will play my music." Singers are comparatively unpredictable. But more important to Stylist Copland was the fact that he had foregone "the absolute originality of every measure," turned in an uncharacteristically relaxed score. "This is not," he smiled, "the opera the critics were waiting for me to write-if they were waiting...
...badly in four sets. With the matches even at one apiece, Captain Talbert, a diabetic 35-year-old not even ranked in the U.S.'s first ten, made a bold decision. He withdrew Seixas from the doubles match and substituted himself. Teamed with Trabert, Billy Talbert, a formful stylist at his peak, bounded all over the court to help the U.S. win the vital doubles point. Next day, Seixas made a belated comeback, and the U.S. finally beat Belgium, 4-1. Four to one, as it happened, became the exact odds the Aussie bookmakers were now quoting against...