Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realistic." He added: "If we are going to go on giving aid, we must clearly look forward to the day when either the aid works or-if it is not going to do the job . . . we'd better know now rather than later." Bob Lovett's tone was soft, but no European diplomat missed the note of warning. This week, with George Kennan looking over their shoulders, the conferees started to do some trimming...
Louis didn't let them down. When he swung into I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, they heard the old, pure, easy phrasing and big, clear, ranging tone that had made Louis King of Jazz. Murmured sentimental, teary-eyed Jazzman Jess Stacy: "I can't tell you how happy this makes...
...Shawnee, the courses included enunciation, programing and "how we acquire balance." Students sat in on rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
...Waring profile is sagging slightly, but the Waring temperament is as sharp as ever. "I'm a perfectionist," explains Fred in his twangy Pennsylvania Tone-Syllables. He can make the claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
...good shaking up, and as a result of it more than 50 general staff officers died. Author Gisevius, one of the few plotters who survived, went into hiding, escaped to Switzerland when the OSS smuggled him a forged passport. Readers may balk at the rightist, sometimes self-righteous tone of his book, but they will find it by far the fullest account to date of anti-Hitler plotting...