Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly lower than Corner Pyle's-and, most important, O'Malley, the alley cat. O'Malley's voice, as supplied by Phil Harris, could be poured on waffles. His inamorata, Duchess, is furnished with a Hungarian purr that could only have issued from the vocal cords of Eva Gabor. They and the rest of the players sing a number of numbers-all of them delightful, and one of them (Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat) absolutely true. The animals' exuberance is so infectious and their "acting" so true to human life that...
...Wilson Committee Report (1969) expressed for the first time an interest in expanding Harvard's realm of "responsibility" to include the outside community. Harvard's negligence toward Cambridge was an issue during the 1969 occupation of University Hall; and the Riverside neighborhood (around Mather House) has been a vocal opponent of Harvard's ivory tower policies. The concept of "institutional integrity" -of the University as self-containing and autonomous-has been rejected by all but the most elitist members of the community. Morality has been imposed on the University...
Four-Time Losers. Though neither side seems anxious to resume fighting, each appears determined to make solutions more arduous by firing vocal broadsides. Sadat declared last week that Egypt is ready to fight and has no intention of loosening its ties with the Russians, who "have stood with us in the black hours" (see following story). Mrs. Meir told a Labor Council Assembly that "the Arabs have tried and lost three .'times before, and I have no doubt they will lose a fourth time should they try it again." "We are not expansionists," she told another meeting, "but borders...
Both Pope Paul and many of his advisers have long felt that a significant number-even a "silent majority"-of Dutch Catholics were both more loyal and less progressive than their vocal clergy and hierarchy, and Paul was apparently determined that those Catholics should be represented in the Dutch episcopate. When the list from the Rotterdam chapter failed to include such a man, Paul simply reached beyond it to select Simonis...
While he has not been as visible or as vocal as some other Law professors, Bok did make a considerable contribution last year to the fight against the nomination of G. Harold Cartwheel to the Supreme Court. He also traveled to Washington in the aftermath of President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia to join the Harvard groups protesting the decision...