Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate debate on the education bill, Republicans were bitterly vocal about the President's demands that the measure be passed without any change whatsoever. A G.O.P. minority on the Senate Education Subcommittee had signed a statement saying: "This important and complex piece of legislation is to pass this body without a dot or comma changed, this by fiat from the Chief Executive." Republicans sent up amendment after amendment; all were voted down. Finally, as Colorado's Senator Peter Dominick stood at his desk shouting, "I for one resent the whole procedure," the education bill was passed...
...voice that fled the Met in 1958. Her high notes were shrill and achingly insecure, and seemed all the more so by contrast with the rich, ringing tenor of Franco Corelli as Mario. In the poignant Vissi d'Arte aria, Callas relied almost wholly on dramatic rather than vocal brilliance to carry her through-which, in her case, is admittedly a compelling compromise. The audience certainly thought so. At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls...
Shaken by her 1959 separation from her husband, Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, Callas admits to having had a real "vocal crisis" a few years ago. Now 41, she explains: "My biggest mistake was trying to intellectualize my voice. I tried to control an animal instinct instead of leaving it as it was. It set me back years. Professionally, the world of Maria Callas has become a lonely world of a woman looking for her voice...
...drifter's lingo is the hottest item on the current top pop charts. Out less than two months, King of the Road passed the three-quarters of a million sales mark last week, is fourth and soaring on this week's Billboard listing. The lyrics, music and vocal are all by a personable young man named Roger Miller, 29. He is no new Beatle, but he has got what they call something. Raised in Oklahoma on a farm and a fiddle, he owes an obvious debt to the country and Western tradition, but mostly he owes a debt...
...charges of aggression; or, in their frankest moments, that Chinese imperialism is better for the East than American imperialism. This underlying bias is in no way preferable to the liberal bias. It is one of the minor tragedies of undergraduate politics that M-2-M has become the most vocal center of protest against the American position in Vietnam...