Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...a.m.the orators were done, and the world was noting the order in which they spoke-Malenkov, Beria, Molotov. At 11:58 the body of Stalin was pushed behind the big metal doors of the mausoleum. At the first stroke of noon by the Kremlin clock, a wave of sound-artillery salvos, clanging chimes, blasting factory whistles-ranged across Soviet Russia and its satellites. Thus was the conqueror laid to rest-not with a prayer, but with whistle's scream and cannon's roar...
...Baptist's "Radio Ministry." It is the oldest continuing religious broadcast on the air. Now using the facilities of Manhattan's station WMGM, Calvary broadcasts twice each Sunday to a radio audience clustered in half a dozen nearby states. Its programs are also picked up on short wave and relayed by Station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. Last year Pastor Wimbish got 25,000 letters from his U.S. and foreign listeners, many of them from people who were converted by the program...
...fast pace of his words with his whole body. But in Social Sciences II, an enrollment of over 650 students chains him to a microphone, and reduces him to wild movement with his hands. Gauging the relative importance of his remarks is easy. An idea emphasized by a gentle wave means little, but anything accompanied by a fist brought up from the floor with a twisting motion is liable to be on the examination...
Louisville's station WAVE-TV is now proving that there is also a large grassroots audience ready and waiting for TV opera. In cooperation with the University of Louisville School of Music, WAVE-TV is telecasting 30-minute condensations of such favorites as La Bohême, Traviata and Hansel and Gretel. All of the operas are sung in English; the casts are made up of local housewives, radio performers and music students. The station supplies free scenery, costumes and technicians, while Director Moritz Bomhard and his staff come from the university. Says Bomhard: "The cost...
...discarding all subplots, Bomhard is able to tell the story of each opera in 30 minutes. He pays as much attention to the acting and sets as to the singing ("Opera must not only be good music, but also good theater"). Station WAVE-TV gets an encouraging mail response from its TV audience. Better still, no one has complained that he would rather have hillbilly music or western movies. Bomhard hopes to be back this fall with his second series. He" also hopes that other stations throughout the nation will take the plunge into opera, because "it's unhealthy...