Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this chorus of self-accusation, no voice carried so much weight as that of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In a nationwide radio address, Adenauer offered deep expressions of regret to "the likable Polish people," admitted that "Hitler Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland and cruelly destroyed it." But today's Germany, he insisted, "is quite another Germany from that under Hitler ... It is therefore that I say from deep conviction that this Germany, the new Germany, will some day be a good neighbor of Poland...
...overburdened with appeal for anyone but Buick salesmen and prospective Buick buyers. It is not meant to be. The admen who put it on have only one object-to kick off the new models with as much razzmatazz as $500,000 can buy. Four cars, manned by formation-driving chorus boys, run through an elephantine ballet as chorus girls dance an accompaniment on foot and on roller skates. And the songs are enough to make even Tin Pan Alley blush: / Could Have Danced All Night comes out: "Electra too, with colors new and thrilling-the richest fabrics...
...Ruff have the credentials to know. Both are fine classical musicians (Mitchell played with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ruff has a B.A. and M.A. from Yale) who formed a jazz duo and split their time between lectures and nightclub dates. In Russia, traveling with 30 members of the Yale Russian Chorus on an informal tour, the pair made contact with the young musicians of the Moscow Conservatory, gave an impromptu concert, and were introduced around to Russia's undercover cats...
Under Mitchell's urging, President Eisenhower released the report to quiet a rising congressional chorus for action by the Administration. Ike hoped that by publishing some indisputable facts on the impasse and admonishing both sides to bargain harder, the Administration could build up public pressure for a quick peace without breaking his promise not to interfere directly. To offend nobody, Mitchell called in both combatants beforehand, showed what he intended to release, made some minor changes suggested by each. Neither side quibbled with the final report, but neither was moved. Said Mitchell: "Management and labor already know these facts...
From the cockney and king's English of My Fair Lady, past the pure Iowa corn of The Music Man to the pidgin of Flower Drum Song, the best of the musicals make a cosmopolitan chorus. Redhead sings along only because Gwen Verdon calls the tune...