Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vocal opposition pointed out that although Secretary Morrison's actions under 18B were supposedly subject to an advisory committee, he had opposed their advice 90% of the time. Laborite Samuel Sydney Silverman called the absolutism of the Home Secretary's powers equal to that of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
...always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than to the character...
Harvard's multifarious political pressure groups make so much noise that it's difficult to realize that their total membership numbers a scant ten per cent of the undergraduate body. This very vocal group has ample opportunity to air its views on current affairs, and also to hear speakers and to discuss its own stands. But the other 90 percent are forced to remain in the outer darkness, ignorant even of the blessings they are denied...
...much miscellaneous chaff every week that it is difficult to wade through the frothy odds and ends to find anything of more than trifling musical interest. Even banking on past reputations one is likely to collide with Bob Crosby's excellent band providing background music for a paltry vocal trio. Or one finds Benny Goodman, the synonym for jazz to perhaps too many these days, experimenting to find something new, in dance music, as his publicity announces, and coming up with two of the most profoundly horrisonous (an obsolete word which must be taken out of mothballs for the occasion...
...Soon (Duke Ellington; Decca). Vocal by honey-voiced Mildred Bailey, with Herman Chittison and Dave Barbour accompanying on the piano and guitar...