Word: cannoneering
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...back as seven months ago mingle with impressions of the present. Like many writers. Butor feels readers are weary of both "I" and "he." His solution in A Change of Heart: to substitute "you." The device is hardly revolutionary, as any reader of syndicated Sports Columnist Jimmy Cannon knows (You are Sugar Ray. Your legs are wobbly, etc.). But through it Butor gains a considerable advantage over non-you writers in achieving another aim of the Neo-Realists-to inspire in the reader not sympathy for the central character, but a kind of empathetic identification with...
...other papers) Columnist Art Buchwald was going home soon. From 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, Columnist Drew Pearson told an inside-out story: Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, still smarting at the loss of Subscriber John F. Kennedy (TIME, June 8), planned to cock Buchwald like a cannon straight at the Administration. Pearson was wrong. "I made my decision to go to Washington before the White House canceled the subscriptions," said Buchwald. "In fact, I understood one of my duties was going to be to deliver the paper to the White House...
Philharmonic Hall is scheduled for a grand opening Sept. 23. Two weeks ago technicians tested and acoustically tuned the hall. A twelve-gauge yachting cannon was fired from the stage; the orchestra played over and over a specially commissioned composition full of loud noises and sudden silences-Daniel Pinkham's Catacoustical Measures-to test echoes and reverberation periods. To simulate the presence of a live audience, seats were filled with pointy-headed fiber glass dummies eerily resembling hooded KKKlans-men, while such fine musical ears as Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski and Erich Leinsdorf prowled the corridors, listening critically...
...Cable & Cannon. Not all the cameras in Philharmonic Hall are permanent installations. Many will be brought in by whatever network is covering a particular event. But the receptacles are there for plugging in the equipment wherever it is needed, and no longer will miles of cable snake down aisles to trip the unwary...
...late Sam Rayburn, the man who served longer as Speaker-17 years-than any other. By the same resolution, two nearby House office buildings will now be known after a couple of Mister Sam's Republican predecessors-one, built in 1908, for iron-willed Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, who reigned from 1903 to 1911, the other, finished in 1933, for Nicholas Longworth...