Word: vocalizer
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Among the 47 million Roman Catholics in the U.S., blacks are a distinct minority, numbering only about 800,000. But the minority is an increasingly vocal one. Last week in Washington, D.C., 350 delegates to the first national convention of black lay Catholics angrily excoriated the church for failing blacks and presented a list of demands...
...Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, is one of the most consistently popular of the sacred cantatas. The purity of its vocal settings, when performed by an adequate soprano, places it among the most starkly beautiful of Bach's vocal works. Benita Valente, Monday night's soloist, is a perfect Bach soprano. She has a clear, pure voice, without any of the excess floridity or overblown style which is fatal in a Bach performance. Miss Valente and the orchestra gave a highly correct interpretation of the work, yet no one devoid of feeling. The work, originally composed...
Blacks generally are the most vocal opponents of all. Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes has said that providing housing, clothing and food for the poor should take precedence over finding ways to combat air and water pollution. Says Richard Hatcher, black mayor of Gary, Ind.: "The nation's concern with environment has done what George Wallace was unable to do: distract the nation from the human problems of black and brown Americans...
Though the left is politically insignificant, it is both vocal and growing in influence among students, labor leaders and intellectuals. Earlier this month, teachers demonstrated in Ankara to protest conservatism in the university there, while students managed to disrupt or close down every major university in Turkey this past spring. So far this year, 14 students have died in violent demonstrations. "If the corrupt university leadership is not replaced by next term," says one student leader, "there will be more blood spilled. We are not fooling." Despite the increased vigor of the left, the Communists are not one of Demirel...
...Richardson plays the Kev. Anderson, who, though some twenty years his wife's senior, is vigorous and by no means in a rut Particularly admirable are the subtle vocal inflections that Richardson brings to his role. It is into the clergyman's mouth that Shaw-leaving nothing to the audience-puts the play's message, albeit one hardly characteristic of a sermonizing minister: "This foolish young man boasted himself the Devil's Disciple; but when the hour of trial came to him, he found that it was his destiny to suffer and be faithful to the death. I thought myself...