Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic elements of Moog's machine are amplifiers, mixers, filters anc voltage-controlled oscillators. Some ol these, connected to the keyboard, trigger various "raw" sounds, such as "sawtooth" waves and "white noise." Other parts then modify the raw sounds by controlling their attack, volume and rate of decay, and by adding such characteristics as vibrato or echo. Complicated combinations of sounds-like the counterpoint and chords of Carlos' Bach album-are achieved by taping each series of sounds as they are produced, then combining them on multiple tracks of the same tape...
...leadership laboratory," has been officially halved to an hour a week by both the Army and Navy, and will probably be eliminated entirely. The brass is well aware that undergraduates can no longer be made to plod through four years of weekly close-order rituals to master what basic trainees learn in the first few days of boot camp. Admits a high-ranking Army ROTC officer in the Pentagon: "Leadership laboratory may well be the program's worst enemy. It's got to go if we are to survive...
...defective because of its emphasis on pathology. By churning the invisible wellsprings of maladjustment, Freud sought to discover normality-which is somewhat like describing the law-abiding citizen through the reprehensible habits of the underworld. He focused on what he called the id-man's dark, powerful and basic animal urges-at the expense of the ego, even while recognizing the ego as the vital mediator between instinct and environment. Thus he missed, or scanted, some very basic questions. What is a normal-healthy-emotional climate? Cannot human unhappiness be conditioned as much by the present...
...acquisitions rose to a record 4,462?ten times as many as in 1950?and most were conglomerate mergers. Hardly any corporation, no matter how large, seems wholly safe from the grasp of conglomerates. During the past two years, conglomerates have absorbed or gained control of such big and basic enterprises as Jones & Laughlin Steel, Lorillard, Wilson, United Fruit and Armour. Lately, relative newcomers to the corporate scene have attempted to take over Sinclair Oil, B. F. Goodrich, Allis Chalmers and mammoth A & P. Even Pan American World Airways, long considered to be practically an unofficial agency...
...Another basic trouble, as SEC Chairman Budge warned last week, is that takeovers are too frequently financed with securities of doubtful future value. Such paper is commonly known to bankers and brokers as "Chinese money." The deals increasingly involve two little-understood kinds of securities...