Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ukulele Lady (Eddie Ballantine and his orchestra, Wing). "If you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady lika you" was a phrase to conjure with during Prohibition, and the Bluejays vocal group cons up quite a bit of the nostalgia. Not so the band, which douses the mood in a boozy blare...
Inconceivable War. Libby's politics, on the rare occasions when he shows them, are stoutly conservative, and he is known to disagree with the highly vocal school of nuclear scientists (e.g., Chicago's Harold Urey) which insists that the only guarantees against nuclear war are political projects, such as world government. On atomic policy he has shown strong opinions, stood as one of the minority of atomic scientists who sided with Edward Teller and other advocates of the H-bomb "crash program" in opposition to the group headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer...
Others of the splendid handful were a large still life by Joan Miro (donated by Armand G. Erpf), far harsher than the later, playful abstractions that made his fame, and a cheesecloth-and-plaster picture by Paul Klee (donated by Stanley Resor) entitled The Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber. Klee's painted maze symbolized the singer by her initials alone, and her voice by the liltingly arranged vowels...
...heart of Bach's work, figured out that about half of the cantatas' 650-odd arias could be performed by combinations of five instruments and four voices. To prove it, he assembled the aria group, made the discovery, to everyone's surprise that Bach vocal music was a tonic to the U.S. concert box office...
Britain's Mediterranean island colonies of Malta and Cyprus are both giving Mother Britain trouble, but in very different ways. Cypriots (or at least a highly vocal percentage of them) want out of the Commonwealth; the Maltese, on the other hand, want to cuddle even closer to the mother country. In some respects, the Maltese desire is more embarrassing...