Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's slickest new vocal group-the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor of a bunch of auto buffs at an antique-car rally...
...inspiration for the trio's verbal jazz comes from Lyricist Hendricks, who nearly ten years ago heard a version of Moody's Mood for Love in which lyrics had been dubbed in for a saxophone solo. Hendricks (now 37) and Boston Jazz Veteran (41) Dave Lambert experimented with instrumental-styled vocal writing for several years, eventually teamed up with London-born Annie Ross. The three of them now sing 30 songs, many of them Basie classics, e.g., Avenue C, It's Sand, Man-heavily flavored with jazz argot...
...American dinosaur, to Romney, is the long, low, chrome-laden U.S. auto, i.e., any car of his Big Three competitors. Where does he hunt it? At conventions, Rotary meetings, congressional hearings, wherever he can find a platform or a soapbox. He closes in on the quarry with a verbal barrage. Back and forth he rocks, clenching his fists, screwing his handsome face into an intense mask. Out shoot the words in evangelical, organlike tones; down flies his big fist to shake the dust from the table...
...size, the present group of applicants has shown a corresponding gain in mental prowess. The median score of candidates on the mathematical part of the Scholastic Aptitude Test was 655--a gain of 20 points over the record high of the Class of '62. The median on the verbal section rose from...
Ford denied reports that the group, a sub-committee of the Committee on Educational Policy, will try to revise admissions policy toward greater emphasis on intellectual ability and verbal and mathematical aptitudes...