Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next eight months, candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will be hurling charges and countercharges about everything from foreign policy to the Government support price on tung nuts. After the vocal exercises are over, the voters will elect 35 Senators* and all 435 members of the House of Representatives. But the question of party control will turn on a far smaller number. More than half of the Senate seats and more than 70% of the House seats to be filled are all but certain to be retained by the party now holding them, if not in every...
...Utmost delicacy and nuance are needed to convince the listener that "jets of slender fountains sob with ecstasy." Samuel Walter's piano accompaniment, although accurate, completely neglected the musical imagery. Miss Wheeler, for her part, lacks the technique of "French" projection--a sharply defined, almost nasal quality--that the vocal lines demand. She was more than equal to big emotional climaxes, but not to evocations of moonlight and mist...
...scrawls her column in longhand that only her secretary can read, usually rewrites her This Week column five or six times. Clem speaks in a hoarse whisper as a result of an operation in which part of her larynx and vocal cords were removed 20 years ago (it took her a year to learn to talk again). In her summer home in Redding. Conn., she likes to cook in the open fireplace over the coals. "I think I cook a nice meal," she says modestly, prefers simple curries, baked beans and brown bread, spaghetti. One night a week...
...wrong, who thinks professors who use the Fifth Amendment should be fired forthwith, should let the Corporation know it, for as a Harvard student he is being hurt as much by this public image as any University official. But for this very reason, any undergraduate who thinks the more vocal foes of the University are creating false impressions with outright lies has just as much of a responsibility to set the record straight to anyone who expresses doubt...
Only the soloists performed expertly. Edward Munro, tenor dispatched the florid Every valley with accuracy and pleasant sound; although bass Irvin Nordquist lacked truly dark vocal color, his part remained dramatically exciting. Eunice Alberts, a little too restrained at first, improved after intermission, displaying her rich contralto tone and careful diction. Soprano Marguerite Willauer distinguished herself in both the intricate coloratura of Rejoice greatly and the more restrained line of the recitatives...