Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Chou En-lai requesting a meeting in Peking. The U.N. vote was impressive in itself (47 to 5, with seven abstentions), but even more so was the vigorous manner in which the U.S. and her allies, after long months of scarcely muffled dissonance, acted in concert. The censure tune's most spirited notes were, in fact, sounded by the representative of Great Britain, which had previously ignored many Red Chinese crimes in its determination to admit the Peking regime...
Rise in Temper. Such chidings (like those of Nehru and Attlee) seemed neither to soften Chou's temper nor change his tune. Scarcely had U Nu left Peking last week for a tour of Manchuria when Chou launched a furious tirade at the U.S.-Formosa security pact. "A grave, warlike provocation!" he cried. If the U.S. did not withdraw from its "occupation" of Formosa, "it must take upon itself all the grave consequences...
...time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen if he would mind the interruption of a popular tune by Pianist Marian McPartland, the old man conceded gracefully-but with a qualification: "Just so she doesn't sing Teach Me Tonight...
...over the world, from Moscow to Peking and on to Washington, the theme rose like a red-hot tune moving up in the Hit Parade. The title was a pleasant one: Peaceful Coexistence. In the notes and comment that passed between Washington and Moscow, the tone was more conciliatory than it had been at any time since the end of World War II. Said the Soviet magazine Kommunist: "The need for peaceful coexistence is especially imperative now, because the alternative would be bloody and destructive war." Said the President of the U.S., as he pleaded for greater international understanding: "Through...
...matter how great--cannot be conveniently ignored by concentrating purely on massed sound. When the Bach Society Chorus disappointed at all, it did so in technical respects. Conductor Howard Brown clearly brought out individual lines of counterpoint, but the sheer effort required to sing all the notes reasonably in tune resulted in a tone that was often coarse and piercing...