Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canoe Expert Adney gives lessons to New Brunswick's Micmac and Malecite Indians in their forgotten art: canoe making. He sews the bark with spruce roots. There are 100 Adney-built scale models in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked...
Grace Moore ultimately became the U.S. moviegoer's idea of a great opera star. Music critics have always deplored her dramatic extravagances and lack of vocal subtlety. Of the four roles for which she is known (Mimi, Tosca, Manon, Louise), all have been sung better by others. Her finest performance is her ebullient interpretation of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, in which she was carefully coached by the composer...
...special call to any and all Midshipmen, and oldsters, interested in the Glee Club, was sent out this week. Your moral as well as vocal support is needed at Potter Auditorium, Tuesday and Wednesday from...
...officers got morning and afternoon classes. Fang and Hong made Chinese noises in front of the classes ; Hockett told the officers how to adjust their vocal equipment to reproduce the noises, ex plained meanings, corrected errors...
...U.S.O. is concerned, it is hard to see any difference, even in degree, from Hit ler's burning of the books. Here were certain statements available for the great majority which were disliked by a small but vocal minority. The decision imposed was designed to allow the smaller group to prevent the larger from entertaining or considering these facts...