Word: tenoritis
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...whom he calls his "flying squad." Some of the high flyers: ex-National Chairmen Frank McKinney and Bill Boyle, California Oilman Ed Pauley, former White House Assistant Donald (Deepfreeze) Dawson, onetime Senate Secretary Les Biffle, ex-White House Secret Service Chief Frank Barry, Sam Rosenman, Dave Noyes, and Irish Tenor Phil Regan. Said Truman: "In five minutes I'm going down and announce for Harriman. I want you fellows to go get this job done. I'm not doing this with my tongue in my cheek. I mean it. I want you fellows to go to work...
...orchestra (harpsichord and strings) and the more impressive dimensions of the Baroque. Since the piece was originally written to be danced, it abounds in strong, bouncy rhythms. Before the chorus begins to sing, the title characters carry on a spirited dialogue, in which conductor Schmidt displayed his fine tenor voice in company with soprano Jean Lunn...
...considering the circumstances. In a most difficult job, Ike said, he has worked "earnestly, rigorously ... to do things that very few people would have had the patience, the intelligence, and really the courage to do. One of the reasons that this whole episode sort of disturbed the even tenor of my ways was that I thought: 'Well, now. Here is a month that he won't be around...
...local rock 'n' roll disc jockey named Red Blanchard and enrolled in a 96-lesson musical correspondence course ("I learned to read music in the first ten and quit"). He bought a tape recorder and started strumming his own tunes, singing the lyrics aloud in an adenoidal tenor. "All I do," he says, "is just take it easy. I sit in my own backyard, and I got dark glasses on. Then I start going 'ump, ump, ump,' like I get the rhythm first, see? I take it cool, and there's nobody irritating...
...modern flute, Brown demonstrated his versatility by performing with consummate skill on four diverse sizes of recorder as well as on an old wooden cross flute--all of which have utterly different playing techniques from the modern flute. The other musicians were Phyllis Olson, tenor and bass viola da gamba; and Daniel Heartz, harpsichord and lute...