Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contingent from local Pennsylvania alumni clubs added to the Quaker vocal support. Indeed, the visitors' rooters made more noise than the home fans. But them obviously, they had more to yell about...
...where the words and music combine in mutual enhancement, and even steal the show from the orchestra. The Harvard and Radcliffe choral groups, trained by G. Walace Woodworth, were no better than usual, but they really couldn't be. That they were able to successfully project the rather unrewarding vocal sections is a tribute to their talent and hard work...
...malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh." Like Bing Crosby, who attributed some of the distinctiveness of his early bu-bu-bu-boos to a node on his vocal cords, Clooney gets a sound that no competitor quite duplicates. In the ballad business, where distinctiveness is worth more than a clear high C, her voice is instantly recognizable...
Rosemary Clooney does not have a "stage" voice. Like Dinah Shore and half a dozen other microphone buggers in this era of the electronic vocal, Rosemary has been turned down for Broadway shows. But by all the signs, her steady success is assured so long as the ballad business lives, as it lives today, by making records...
...spoken digits, 1 through 0. Hooked up to an ordinary telephone, Audrey listens to a spoken telephone number and matches its digits against sound patterns in her memory. Then she flashes numbered lights to show what she has heard. Audrey can be tuned to one man's vocal manners and will read his speech correctly 98% of the time. When Bell scientists equip her with a larger vocabulary and teach her to recognize anyone's speech, they hope to put her to work as a telephone operator...