Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impressive number of scholarly articles and books, he is an activist in the cause of civil rights. As director of training institutes for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, he supervises continuing legal education for civil rights lawyers in various parts of the country. He has also been a vocal opponent of both the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court...
...majority sat in the Conservative room, where it was sometimes difficult to hear over Zsa Zsa Gabor's stream of commentary. She was particularly vocal when Hello, Dolly! nominees were in contention. "Barbra Streisand is so distasteful," Zsa Zsa muttered scornfully. Zsa Zsa also had her say about the special Oscar given to Cary Grant "for sheer brilliance." "They are trying to show he's a great lover," she carped, "but they'll never prove it to me." In mock embarrassment, Pressagent Warren Cowan reprimanded Zsa Zsa: "I can't take you anyplace." Actually Zsa Zs.a...
...integrates piano, chorus and orchestra, seemed better prepared than any piece to date. The piano part sparkled, without any of the inference of keyboard exercises which Serkin had previously given. The Chorus Pro Musica, prepared by Alfred Nash Patterson, was in excellent tone, as might be expected from any vocal group which Patterson has conducted. After this opener, the night's program was well established. For the first time in the week, a piano concerto came off flawlessly. The Fourth Concerto had neither the over-familiarity nor the mechanical feeling which had characterized the Festival on the previous nights...
...Company completes this process of transforming the musical. This show has fourteen charaters and all but one of them also serve as nameless vocal commentators on the action. Very few scenes are broken up by characters bursting into song; all songs fall between scenes or, if they do interrupt the script, are sung by performers who are not in the scene which is being interrupted. The work of Rodgers and Hammerstein has been undone atlast. We are back in some sense where the musical started structurally-only the musical numbers are now not irrelevant to the show but complementary...
...White House never came, while Brooke was under increasingly heavy pressure from civil rights groups to speak out. Black militants added to Brooke's woes by dubbing him an "Uncle Tom." Now that Brooke has made the break, his example may well spur other prominent blacks into more vocal opposition...