Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Revelations. Still the most vocal of the Democrats was the man who touched off the controversy, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana. Three weeks ago, Boggs accused the bureau of wiretapping. Last week, having promised corroborating evidence, Boggs steamed into the fray. On the House floor he insisted during an impassioned, hour-long speech that his contention was true and went on to intimate that electronic surveillance devices may have been used against other Administration critics, among them former Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois and Democrat Birch Bayh of Indiana...
...Wolves sing. > There are lupine vocal registers-soprano wolves, contralto wolves, tenor wolves, even a bass wolf or two. > Wolves have a characteristic call in which the interval of the major sixth (C to A) predominates...
...political rally anything goes short of actual violence. Just as the libel laws are relaxed for politicians and public officials, so their freedom of speech is limited by the right of the electorate to remonstrate with them at public rallies. They are as vulnerable, so the argument goes, to vocal as to printed abuse. This vulnerability is essential to ensure that the feelings of the citizenry are freely expressed to public officials whose control of the instruments of violence and disproportionate access to the communications media may tend to make the public debate too one-sided...
...have been particularly shocked and dismayed at your decision to intervene in these proceedings in the midst of the public clamor. Your decision can only have been prompted by the response of a vocal segment of our population, who, while acting in good faith, cannot be aware of the evidence which resulted in Lieutenant Calley's conviction. Your intervention has damaged the military judicial system and lessened any respect it may have gained...
...years following The Rite, Stravinsky narrowed down to spare and unusual combinations of instruments and voices. Les Noces, composed between 1914 and 1917, was scored for four vocal soloists, chorus, four pianos and percussion. In 1918 came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity...