Word: tenoring
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...employees do not establish policy but execute it; and to make career employees the whipping boy because of the size of the budget is not only unfair but wholly unrealistic . . . We are aware that "nobody wants to end or to impair the merit system," but in view of the tenor of the piece as a whole, its derogation of career employees, its repetition of some of the most moth-eaten of the spoilsmen's cliches, such a qualification loses any real meaning or force. Virtually every attack on the merit system in history has been advanced under the cover...
...largest in the Catskills. But among the other 300-odd resort hotels, a whopping total of about 62,000 performances a year is totted up, and the other hotels have their own graduate luminaries. Comedian Danny Kaye started at the White Roe Lake Hotel, Met Tenor Jan Peerce at the President Hotel. Comedians Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, Playwrights Moss Hart, Garson Kanin are also Catskill alumni...
...European Defense Community Treaty, but hinted that defeat on this point would not cause him to dissolve parliament. He advocated a cut in rearmament together with a planned investment program calculated to stimulate production and halt unemployment. He promised continued close relations with the U.S., but the whole tenor of his speech was that France could not hope to have a real voice in international affairs, unless it obtained economic independence from America...
Khachaturian: Cello Concerto (Sviatoslav Knushevitsky; the U.S.S.R. State Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gauk; Vanguard). Written in 1946, this score could almost have been composed a half-century earlier. Khachaturian, a cellist himself, lets the solo instrument sing in a flowing, melancholy tenor. Performance: excellent...
...Cambridge Quartet include Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Eunice Alberts, contralto; William Hess, tenor; Paul Matthen, bass. All except Mr. Hess are local musicians and have frequently appeared as soloists in Boston. A mediumsized audience responded to the group's superb artistry as well as to its evident enthusiasm in performance by one of the warmest ovations I have witnessed this season in Sanders Theatre...