Word: vanguardism
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William Byrd & His Age (Alfred Deller; Basel's Wenzinger Consort of Viols; Vanguard). Music from the golden age of English music (16th-17th centuries) sung in the round, slightly hooty but flexible alto of famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...
...direction in which the satellite is fired (getting it aloft is known as Project Vanguard) will set it so that it passes over the earth every 100 minutes in rings which would not exceed the fortieth parallel either north or south. Thus it would go no further north than Philadelphia, although it could easily be seen from Cambridge under good observing conditions...
...Manhattan night-livers were happily tuned last week to a pair of pretty girl singers. Caterina Valente had already gone far - all the way from Germany to the Cotillion Room of the posh Hotel Pierre. Barbara Lea had only gone as far as the tiny downtown and downstairs Village Vanguard, but she was already breaking many of the customers' hearts twice nightly...
Half the globe away from the world's shooting wars, the vanguard of an international brigade of athletes invaded Australia. They had come, so they were told, to promote peace. But the repercussions of far-off gunfire were felt in Melbourne's Olympic village-and might just possibly wreck the 1956 games...
...annual World Science Fiction Convention this September, for instance, a sizeable portion of time at the three-day meeting was given over to the Glenn L. Martin Company for a discussion of Project Vanguard, next year's launching of an Earth Satellite. No one mentioned--or watched--Captain Video...