Word: brassier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul is, as ever, powerful, meticulous, and demanding of his orchestra. And the result is, as one has come to expect, a rendition of Sullivan's most exuberant score that splendidly complements Hammond's direction. The orchestra is slightly overbalanced towards strings and could, perhaps, have been a bit brassier; but the necessity to resort to criticism so minor only underscores the fact of an excellence that has become traditional...
...made more mistakes both when noise was turned on and when it was turned off. Continuous music has been found to make cows give more milk, and to combat tedium and raise production in offices and factories. Muzak, a leading piper of auditory tonic, has different programs for factory (brassier), office (subtler), supermarket (a combination of the two), and travel, mainly for airplanes. Plane fare is carefully screened for content; Stormy Weather and I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You are out. Muzak once played I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling...
Sticky Windows. The larger corporations seem to attract the brassier corporate clowns. At Chrysler Corp's meeting in Detroit last week, President Lynn Townsend was forced to listen patiently while a stockholder complained that his Chrysler transmission had dropped out after only 2,000 miles and another beefed about a sticky car window. A.T. & T.'s 80th annual meeting in Philadelphia was interrupted by a woman who raced down the aisle in clown's costume to protest that Chairman Frederick R. Kappel had opened the meeting improperly. "Keep still long enough," barked Kappel...