Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring Assassin Ben Sadok, mingling with the crowd pouring from Colombes Stadium after a championship soccer game, shot and killed 60-year-old All Chekkal, onetime vice president of the Algerian National Assembly and one of France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that...
...management concerns operating in Manhattan (Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corp. and Sol Hurok among them control 90% of the business). The New York management outfits now give their clients a choice of 617 attractions, including 96 sopranos, 42 tenors, 101 pianists, 50 violinists, 65 instrumental ensembles, 47 vocal ensembles, four harpists, one marimbist and an assortment of special acts. Many younger artists use the local concert circuit to pick up experience, but many of the big names no longer want to tour widely. As a result, the big-time virtuoso recital is going out of vogue, and most...
...playful poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest musical treat...
...derisive manner of the best French writing, Aron indicts the French intelligentsia for committing treason against the West, and he does much to elucidate a mystery that bedevils the friends of France: Why, in the name of (and despite) their own traditions of freedom, are France's most vocal philosophers artists and scientists declared Soviet partisans or, at least, neutralists...
...wants the little Red bank manager to beat the rap. The book's ultimate irony is stated in the title taken from a 1955 speech by Khrushchev: ''We will abandon Communism when the shrimp learns to whistle.'' According to scientists shrimps are actually highly vocal (one, the Pistol Prawn, makes a noise like a cap pistol). Says one Grinioff character slyly at the novel's final party: "They whistle all the time-but only for each other...