Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech in London. "To preserve his freedom ... a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene." And as he looked one way across the rubble at the Soviets and the other way to Mamie and home, Ike finished World War II as he had fought it, in total tune with his men. "Aside from disappointment in being unable to solve in clean-cut fashion some of the nagging problems," he wrote, "I just plain miss my family...
...lesser Yugoslav at Nikita's bent elbow: "When a soldier is out of step is it the fault of the soldier or of the music that's being played?'' Last week the news from Belgrade was that the music from Moscow was still out of tune, and/or Yugoslavia's Communists were still out of step...
Bumpy Exit. NBC's Opera Theater has been widely admired on television, but sponsors are still wary. This year NBC decided that if more people could hear their brand of intelligible and dramatic opera in person, they would tune in television opera in droves...
...came, music that sang of Technicolor landscapes and of love that was tender, contented, and safely married. Every song was almost without flaw, as in a languorous dream, rich and edgeless as whipped cream, and always giving a hint of something a little more respectable than a mere pop tune, as the massed strings soared to the discrete pulsation of a harp or a guitar. And sometimes the music actually was more respectable, as when it was an orchestral arrangement of an operatic aria. This was the music of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, a swarthy Italian-turned-Briton who five years...
Swell Party. But if nostalgic viewers missed the old principals, they were at least treated to some of the best Porter tunes, in a strikingly natty showcase: Dolores Gray belted out I Get a Kick Out of You and Just One of Those Things. George Sanders suavely suggested that he was singing C'est Magnifique. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy provided the comic element, with some mild stabs of wit. Bing Crosby merely contributed a tune clipped from High Society (Now You Has Jazz), sung with Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, whose galvanic Blow, Gabriel, Blow undoubtedly jazzed...