Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brink of divorce. Too little love, rather than too much, has turned another son into a mother's boy, and he has married a nymphomaniac. A discarded husband and father of 29 years before turns up to meet his sons and resample a bit of the vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler, potters and poeticizes near life's exit with a funny and touching gallantry and even cheats incipient rigor mortis a couple of times...
Dust & Cobwebs. "Britten has never claimed to be an innovator," argues Tenor Peter Pears, his longtime friend and the voice for whom most of his work is composed. "There blows through his vocal music, at least, a strong, revitalizing southeast wind which has rid English song of much accumulated dust and cobwebs. If Britten is no innovator, he is most certainly a renovator...
...vocal fans got their first real excitement in the second quarter, when sophomore Keith Sedlacek came off the bench. As the crowd stomped and yelled "Shoot, Keith, Shoot!" Sedlacek responded by pumping in four straight 20-footers. But for every one of these beauties. Wesleyan fed the ball to 6 ft. 6 in. Winthrop "Winky" Davenport, who evaded the ineffectual defense of Merle McClung to keep Wesleyan safely ahead. The Redbirds left the court at halftime with a 37-31 advantage...
During its visit to the College last Dec. 2, Committee members met with Dean Ford, J. Petersen Elder, dean of the GSAS, and many department chairmen and senior Faculty members. The Committee also lunched with 16 seniors from the College, and indicated that the students had been vocal in criticizing the quality of instruction...
...have been following the parietal hours controversy with somewhat interest, feeling certain that the House system is a sturdy enough teapot to survive even this vocal a tempest. Dr. Cobb's letter, however, compels me to point out a rather obvious ambivalance which has characterized much of the debate: a nervous hopping about between moral and legalistic justifications for a change in the rules...