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...sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless songs (the composer, Phil Moore, calls the technique "Woman-as-an-Instrument"), Carol fogs out three minutes of lowdown vowels, then wraps it up with wacky sexiness in a single phrase of explicit English: "Saved it all for you." Titles on the reverse side-Lying in the Hay, Keep on Doin' What You're Doin'-leave little...
...didn't he go? The question can best be answered by the man himself. At Paris, Stevenson could not have spoken for himself without appearing to stab the American delegation in the back. He could not have kept silent without implying tacit assent and wordless blessing to policies he did not conceive and did not believe in. At the present time, Stevenson is a political dead man. While more ambitious Democrats pursue more prudent courses, he may speak his mind on American foreign policy. To have gone to Europe would have compromised this new role as a responsible critic...
Last week, after being suspended for this wordless protest, Raya was allowed to publish again on condition that it make no attempt to tell readers why it had been banned. By contrast with Keng Po, Indonesia's biggest paper (56,000), which in five months has not run a single editorial, Raya vowed an editorial last week: "We'll continue to fight for truth in so far as it is possible...
...relaxed, did not start her day's work until 5:45 a.m., nowadays still begins at the same hour. A fanatic of the dance, Shanta Rao insists that a dancer should be able to run through the whole gamut of emotions with the wordless movements of her body. "If I say 'I love you,' I should be able to show it in different ways if you are a girl or a god. If I am evil, I want you to feel like killing me." But when asked by eager Westerners about the "spirituality" of Indian dancing, Shanta...
...Wordless, he sat down next to me and deposited a great, ink-stained ledger book before him. Meditating quietly for a moment, he suddenly looked up and said, "Do you like Mr. Miller...