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...many of them housewives, can read music. They sing with none of the trickiness and polish of professional Negro groups like the Hall Johnson Choir. Sure-fire "lifter" at St. Paul is Hines's setting of the Lord's Prayer. The choir chants the first line in unison, adding more harmony with each new line. The screaming climax leaves the church shuddering. Says Hines: "We don't sing to entertain. We sing to lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: We Sing to Lift | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...children for petty spying and to plant explosives, the guide said). Most of the other prisoners, standing in military formations, were singing. Phrase by phrase, the grey-uniformed men followed their tenor leaders in one song called I Love My Gun, another, Victory Song. They sang in excellent unison, breath steaming in the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE GLORY OF PLUMBING | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

make it. The crowd caught on. They shouted in unison for Messrs. Moffie, Adams, and Pierce...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Sutlers, Gamins, Flatfoots Join Havoc Cry for Tiger's Blood | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...high spot of vocal gymnastics spoke most strongly for the Princeton Club. Barely any "falling apart" or less of unison accompanied the tricky arpeggios in Beethoven's "Oh, What Delight," the Prisoners Chorus from "Fidelio," "Maiden Fair" suffered from the basses and "My Lovely Celia" from the inarticulate delivery of the lyric...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...explains with chalk and blackboard what changes have to be made in their tactics. He does it without dramatics. If Michigan has a big lead at halftime, Crisler always asks, as his players set off toward the field: "What's the score?" The proper answer, delivered in unison: "Nuthin' to nuthin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Specialist | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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