Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies in the radio version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...
...going to try to go further into the world of ideas. We'll never get a sponsor anyway, so we might as well try anything. We hope to be the fourth dimension of radio programming, up on Cloud Nine in an intellectual and entertaining way." Brave New World, with its ingenious sound effects, its "pneumatic" girls and production-line god ("Thank Ford someone has come! Thank Ford!"), is a good beginning...
...plot is no heavy-weight. Country pastor's doctor says he has a year to live; country pastor has beautiful daughter who needs piano lessons in London; country pastor has no money, but takes brave anti-orthodox stand which costs him higher-paid job; wife steals needed money, he returns it; in grip of death, country pastor finds new meaning in life...
...time for divine services in the small Protestant church in Nicosia. Sir John Harding, a brave soldier and brilliant commander has fought two wars, led whole armies-including thousands of Cypriots who fought in British uniforms. But he dares not worship alone. A squad of British soldiers precedes him and examines the altar, the Bible, the pews and chancel for planted explosives. Harding arrives in a bulletproof sedan. Armored cars bristle outside as Sir John, Governor General of the Crown Colony of Cyprus is at his devotions...
Shelby is 18, a volunteer just out of a Virginia military prep school, and he arrives in England, assigned to an evacuation hospital, the most foul and fouled-up outfit in the U.S. Army. He is young, brave, idealistic, but his comrades beat all that out of him until one day, in France, he goes AWOL to fight with a rifle at the front. Thereupon he discovers he is not a courageous man. Instead of accepting this as a not unusual fact, young Shelby is full of shame. Before long, he is stealing penicillin to pay a tart...