Word: vocal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into a Trap? Nixon was in plenty of trouble. His meeting earlier in New York with Republican Liberal Nelson Rockefeller, and his 14-point agreement of principles ("The Treaty of Fifth Avenue"). had rocked Midwestern, Southern and Western Republicans. Conservatives, led by the vocal and determined Barry Goldwater, stormed through the city, accusing Nixon of nothing less than treachery. Behind guarded hotel doors, the G.O.P. Platform Committee and all its subcommit tees foundered in a ragged dispute among conservatives, liberals and moderates. As moderates gritted their teeth and dug in, the platform was shaping up to something close...
...Pick almost any adjective you like, and you can find support for its applicability somewhere in the script. She is utterly chameleonic in behavior, and nearly as complex as Hamlet. But Miss Hepburn's range is far too limited; and she indulges in the sort of pseudo-emotional descending vocal wavering that delighted the fans of Julia Marlowe many decades ago but is now wholly out-of-date. She does, however, deliver some of her vituperative and ironic lines effectively, and manages to achieve a certain dignity in her death scene...
...president. Last week the full extent of his shady goings on was made public. Chrysler announced that Newberg had agreed to return "profits in excess of $450,000 made by him from interests in vendor companies." Corporate executives at Chrysler, including Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, normally a vocal fellow, were just as reluctant to talk about this startling news as they were about Newberg's sudden departure...
...Lost City Ramblers, a trio of college men, sing a brand of hillbilly known as "Blue Grass." Born in Kentucky, the style calls for a complex string accompaniment-in this case on five-string banjo, fiddle and guitar-and a frenetically fast vocal line unreeled to a foot-slapping accompaniment. The Ramblers learned their best songs-Beware, O Take Care and Hopalong Peter-from such fabled Blue Grass groups as the Buckle-Busters and Dr. Smith's Champion Horse-Hair Pullers...
...David Galliver; Philomusica of London with the St. Anthony Singers, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; London). A slightly cut version of the masque that became the most popular of Handel's works in his own lifetime. The score is fresh and frothy, the choral numbers a wonder of vocal crosshatching, and the performance controlled and clear. Soprano Sutherland trills her lines with transparent ease...