Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authors (Williams) and quoting dead authors (Mann). Mr. Kazin wants dramatists to reflect "the enlarged voice of our human possibilities." It has always seemed to me that Tennessee Williams has spent a good deal of time in his plays pointing out that this voice has been slashed at the vocal cords in today's world. We may expect to hear more of Mr. Kazin: speeches before the D.A.R. defending Eddie Guest, violent sallies in favor of Shakespeare and Melville, applauding letters in the columns of the Ladies' Home Journal, a pat on the back from Billy Graham, perhaps...
Bells Are Ringing (Arthur Freed; M-G-M). In this $3,000,000 Metrocolored musical based on her Broadway boff of 1956, Judy Holliday employs her limited vocal resources with showmanly style, supports them with a comic gift that is a major wonder of the entertainment world, and with some skillful assistance from Director Vincente (Gigi) Minnelli manages to jog and jazz and jigger a merely middling book and some fairly forgettable tunes into one of the year's liveliest and wittiest cinemusicals...
...printed? Even by innuendo the basic news has not been distorted that America appears to have at last produced a Senator with moral courage. Is there hope that the courageous Mr. Goldwater will not be buried, by the reviles and pressures of the liberal, socialistic and left-wing vocal groups in your country and emerge as a true American leader the world so desperately needs...
...Vocal Girl...
Since 1846, when the U.S. Senate wrangled for two months over the Oregon resolution (which led to a treaty defining U.S.-British jurisdiction in the Pacific Northwest), no other debate ever made a bigger demand on Senate time and vocal cords. The Senate's civil rights debate began last Feb. 15 and ended, 53 days later, last week. In a swift vote, powered by an overwhelming, 71-10-18 majority, the Senate passed the 1960 civil rights bill and sent it back to the House for, hopefully, quick agreement by a floor vote. When that happens, the civil rights...