Word: vocalized
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...perch in the prompter's box and, later, from a catwalk 40 ft. above the stage. But then he abandoned the project, and the fragile, two-minute wax cylinders were left to decay and, in some cases, break and disappear. As early as 1938, collectors began preserving the priceless vocal treasures. Now a team of two critics and a recording engineer, under the auspices of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Performing Arts Research Center and the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, has heroically rescued all 134 of the surviving playable cylinders and issued them...
...first won his seat in the House of Representatives in 1964 and speedily garnered bipartisan respect for his intelligence, diligence and integrity. As a member of, and eventually the ranking Republican on, the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Conable was an expert on U.S. tax policy and a vocal proponent of free international trade. In 1980 he served as finance chairman of George Bush's bid for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. After his 1985 retirement from Congress, Conable spurned a lucrative lobbying career in Washington--"I don't want to be owned," he said--and took a post teaching...
...initial group of 15 has expanded so that virtually every department or degree-granting chair has been personally invited to the meetings. To date, over three dozen current and incoming chairs—most from the humanities and social sciences, and many of whom have been vocal critics of Summers—have attended the meetings, which are unprecedented in the history of FAS, according to organizers...
...Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth were very vocal and supportive...of their respective high jumpers competing,” Andrew-Jaja wrote in an e-mail. “Their numbers served to make Harvard look grossly underrepresented at home...
Amidst the ensuing uproar, many of Summers’ most vocal defenders—on and off campus—came from the right wing of the political spectrum. That marked a startling turnaround from a decade ago, when Summers, then a top official at the Clinton Treasury Department, was a favorite punching bag for conservative pundits...