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Distribution of required texts may be the library's basic concern, but its ambitions go much further. Lamont is already working with the aural end of education, and plans to do more. On the fifth level lies what is perhaps the library's greatest showpiece: the Woodberry Poetry Room. Here, surrounded by the supreme effort of Lamont's interior decorators, is the library's fast-growing collection of records and tapes--covering quite completely the fields of ballad and verse, with a good number of dramatic readings thrown in. The tape collection, as yet uncatalogued, includes a number of lectures...
Into the Gap. By the time Winchell got to the big radio money in 1944, Edgar Bergen was the world's most successful ventriloquist. But was it ventriloquism? On a sightless medium, it was less an illusion than high aural comedy by a man with a natural wit and an educated larynx. Television was another matter. Bergen, his technique rusty after radio, made a few exploratory TV appearances, then went off to semi-retirement to think things over and work on his movie autobiography (From Little Acorns). Into the gap streaked Winchell, his ventriloquial skills razor-sharp...
...bulk of the evening's lecture was on the "sonorous image." Copland spoke of it as a "kind of aural mirage, not easily immobilized and analyzed." He gave as an example, the impact of such an image upon himself. Once, in 1925, he had gone to a rehearsal to hear the first orchestration of his music. Arriving late, he said the sound of his music excited him so, "that I was literally about to fall over...
...present recordings, two long-playing discs, are not completely successful because often the super-sensitive microphones pick up unwanted sibillances and reverberations. But "Romeo and Juliet" is outstanding for other reasons: an excellent performance by a fine cast, and a delicate understanding of the use of music in aural presentation...
...bulk. Lacking the literary quality and range of Churchill's wartime writings, they succeed only intermittently in suggesting why Roosevelt was such a dynamic wartime leader or why he captured the love and affection of so many millions of Americans and their Allies. His gifts were essentially for aural relations. On the platform, on the radio and in the newsreels, his qualities got across in a manner only faintly suggested by the plain, black & white written word...