Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some singers purge themselves with doses of castor oil, others prime themselves with such elixirs as raw eggs, whisky with sugar, iodine in milk, quinine pills, or stiff injections of vitamin C. Also popular are small doses of strychnine, which, according to one doctor, "tunes the vocal cords like violin strings." Says Dr. Geraldo de Marco, house physician at Milan's La Scala Opera: "We give so many shots that occasionally we run out and just give injections of water. The singers never know the difference, and afterward they always say how wonderfully they sang...
This visual reiteration of the characters' isolation and entrapment makes Sartre's themes unmistakable, but puts a heavy theatrical responsibility on the actors. Their only hold on the audience must be an unflagging physical and vocal intensity. If any effect is dissipated, the audience is already too far removed to pay further attention...
Secondly, there is the hope of changing current policy. All other, more moderate, channels having been tried, anti-Administration policy has been escalated. The argument here, as I understand it -- and it strikes me as valid -- is that in order to promote a change in policy, a noticeable and vocal opposition is necessary. The growth of such an opposition is dependent, in good measure, on knowledge of its own strength. Communications media not having served extensively as forums for policy debate, the occasion of McNamara's visit could be used to publicize opposition at Harvard in the hope of encouraging...
...Loraine-Smith of the Pytchley Hunt, says that it "has something to do with the mechanical age creating a longing to get back to something near the earth." He adds: "We even have factory workers hiring ponies and riding out without sleep after working a night shift." But one vocal segment of the British population objects to this form of outdoor recreation...
Light & Knife. The polyp (from the Greek polypodos, many-footed) near the President's vocal cord is a soft growth that looks something like a miniature octopus. Polyps are common in many parts of the body; misuse of the vocal cords seems to encourage their development in the larynx. The great majority are benign tumors, but while the President is still under the anesthetic, his polyp will be cut up and examined under the microscope to make sure there is no malignancy. Removal is a simple matter of inserting a tube with a light at the end down...