Word: chirpings
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...fact, though hardly new, the chirp and bleat of parochial pride is more blatant than ever. The simple reason: these days the old hooray for the home team gets amplified by all the techniques typical of the age of hype. Localities and larger principalities routinely hire professional publicists and jingle writers to puff up the old image and help sell it like so much soda pop. Provincial self-glorification is both nourished and exported in a growing number of slick regional and city magazines. Moreover, metropolises and counties now go to exorbitant lengths to build spectacular sports arenas, convention centers...
...thirty a.m.--an ungodly hour in anyone's estimation, but especially so on a Saturday morning. Not even Elsie's is open. Birds chirp raucously and the light attar of apple blossoms tinctures the air. A crowd of about 50--rubbing sleep from their eyes--has repaired to the banks of the Charles, attired in everything from jeans to tails and derby...
...cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...secretary makes them. It is insufferable one-upmanship to have a secretary chirp, "Please hold for Mr...." Baldrige offers a fairly quaint line for use in getting rid of a pest on the phone: "My staff informs me an emergency call is waiting for me on the other line. Please forgive me, and put in writing the rest of your thoughts." She is less than enthusiastic about recorded music being piped in to entertain a caller who is put on hold...
Beneath a small honeycombed disc on the front of the camera is a thin, gold-coated plastic foil diaphragm that acts as both transmitter and receiver of sound. The diaphragm emits a millisecond "chirp" that bounces back from the object aimed at and, in a series of steps that take a fraction of a second, fixes the lens at the precise focus, from 10 in. to infinity. Not an accessory, the device is an integral part of the camera, which will go on sale late this year. List price: about $280, v. $233 for the regular SX-70, which produces...