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Under "Antics at the Met" [TIME, Dec. 8], your critic makes note of Soprano Erna Schleuter's "sickening, undulating vibrato." No doubt what he meant was a ... tremolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...drug to keep the underprivileged anesthetized. No, he meant that religion is a consolation for the injustices and burdens of life in a capitalistic world. . . . The bourgeois American subscribes to the same definition of religion as Marx. In America religion is generally cherished merely for its consolation value. A tremolo on the organ, a theologically inaccurate sermon full of sweetness and light, a studious avoidance of the ghastly details of the Passion and our contribution to it, a sentimental misinterpretation of the Sermon on the Mount, the presentation of a God who always understands, demanding no greater retribution than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Open Windows? | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Said the Moscow radio with a self-conscious tremolo: "The historic victory of the Soviet people over the enemy has . . . demonstrated . . . the exceptional devotion of the entire population . . . toward the Soviet motherland. . . . For crimes punishable by the death sentence under laws now in force [the courts will] apply in peacetime confinement in corrective labor camps for 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Humane Gesture | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...records represent Sheen's public sermons rather than apologetics in camera, for prospective converts,, but they strikingly reveal both his manner and his matter. The manner: lucid confidence, forceful but not bullying. There is no shying from the emotional appeal or the resonant tremolo as he intones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Converter on Wax | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Sentimental Journey (20th Century-Fox), a soft-tremolo, full-quart weeper, should induce more snifflling and blubbering in the dark, more purse-fumbling and furtive eye-dabbing, than anything out of Hollywood since Marguerite Clark went to Heaven as Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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