Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soaring. Among the most vocal of the signers was Ad Reinhardt, who paints as abstractly as possible. "Anyone who would sit down to paint grass today," says Reinhardt, "is just an illustrator. What we see isn't real; everybody knows that." Reinhardt's pictures have nothing to do with anything except "the aesthetic experience, the painting experience...
...Battle for Europe. The most active and vocal resistance to Coca-Cola, which had arisen in France, was showing serious signs of crumbling. An unholy alliance of Communists and winegrowers had forced an anti-soft-drink bill through the Assembly, under which the Health Ministry might ban Coca-Cola (TIME, March 13). So far, the Health Minister has not budged, and it seems unlikely that he will. Meanwhile, Coke's French bottling firm kept turning out 840,000 bottles of Coke a month, a modest but promising beginning. Bright red & yellow Coke trucks made the approach of spring...
Most modern poetry is written to be seen & not heard; much of it is (in a vocal sense at least) unspeakable. To British Poet Richard Church, this is a "monstrous state of the art." In a preface to an anthology of Poems for Speaking, recently published in Britain, he plumps hard and solemnly for 1) poems that a reader can get his mouth around, and 2) readers with muscular lips and jaws to handle what's on hand...
Except for a wretched vocal group called "The Upstarts," the cast is uniformly excellent. Especially worth mention is a young dancer named Dorothy Jarnae, who has an amazingly mobile body and face. Her performance of her own choreography, is a high point in the show. Jack Albertson is another talented fellow who can do anything from a good buck-and-wing to double talk; Patricia Bright is a very attractive and delightful singing comedienne. Roger Price, a latter-day Herb Shriner, is an amusing monologuist, and a clever cartoonist as well...
...Council initiated the election reform, to be effective until the new Council constitution goes into operation, largely as a result of very vocal complaints raised against the handling of the 1950 Permanent Class Committee Elections...