Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howe, a vocal opponent of the candidacy of Edward M. Kennedy '54, added that he would do "anything within reason" to hurt Kennedy's chances of becoming a United States Senator...
...music-I take it as secular music." Asked how he now feels about his opera, A Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was denounced by Pravda in 1936 (reportedly because Stalin did not like it), Shostakovich revealed that he was rewriting it: "I did not like the old version; in vocal parts I abused high and low registers. This has been corrected...
Swallowing Air. In natural speech, air from the lungs is exhaled through the windpipe (trachea), past the "vocal cords" (membranes of the larynx). If these membranes are tensed and vibrated, a tone is produced. That tone and its timbre are modified by the tongue, teeth and lips to make the different sounds of speech. In the laryngectomee, the exhaled air escapes through the hole in his neck (tracheostomy) where his Adam's apple used to be. But air can also be swallowed through the gullet (esophagus) and burped back again. And the swallowing muscles...
When cancer cost her her own vocal cords in 1944, Mrs. Doehler not only taught herself esophageal speech but set about perfecting methods of teaching others. She has written a standard handbook on the technique (it has just been translated into Japanese), and has taught no fewer than 1,300 laryngectomees herself, mostly at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary...
...county health department and the local medical society nominated socially conscious Fairfax County, largely populated by commuters from adjacent Washington, as a test area to see if the public would accept onetime, two-shot vaccinations. Newspapers and radio stations publicized the free shots. Despite the kids' vocal protests, last week's answer was encouraging: 3,865 children showed...