Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always something the children are capable of carrying out-and when they do, "they walk on clouds because they have succeeded." The harsh drills are designed to help the children to control their actions so that they move only on a teacher's command, then respond to vocal commands of their own making, finally move only on their own silent internal commands. This kind of control is an essential preliminary to learning how to read, the foundation's psychologists contend...
...their size, decked out in such a motley blur of polka-dot pants, fringed suede shirts, neck chains, lizard boots and other psychedelic cowboy garb that they sometimes look like three times as many people, Cream go beyond oddness into originality. In a genre that is virtually defined by vocal effects alone, their slashing, blues-steeped sound is mainly instrumental; they even use their voices like instruments. Their motto: "Forget the message, forget the lyrics; just play...
Brando as usual plays with vocal characterization, coming up with his version of the clipped speech pattern of a southern army major. Brando's performance comes off well, his face mirroring the tensions of a man first discovering then stoking an attraction for another man. The enlisted man (Robert Forster) doesn't say much more than two words during the entire film. He spends most of the time riding around naked on an old mare, and the rest sniffing Miss Taylor's clothes in her room at night while she lies sleeping nearby...
Many, if not most, of Harvard's younger faculty members have become increasingly vocal during the past year in their opposition to the war in Vietnam. One who has not is Samuel P. Huntington, the new chairman of the Government Department, who came back two months ago from a six-week State Department-sponsored tour of South Vietnam...
Last week, however, as the pollsters reported in with ever brighter portents for the G.O.P., Lindsay suddenly became quite vocal. Visiting Washington for a meeting of the President's Commission on Civil Disorders, of which he is vice chairman, Republican Lindsay agreed to sit down with reporters from several newspapers for a "backgrounding" session...