Word: clangors
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...spare patients and staff the insistent, nerve-racking clangor of bells or "squawk boxes" long used to summon doctors, St. Thomas' Hospital in London adopted some helpful gadgetry. Hooked up to a magnetic loop surrounding the hospital is a transmitter rigged for 56 different frequencies, with one assigned to each staff doctor. When he is wanted, a porter presses the right button, the magnetic impulses actuate a receiver in the doctor's breast pocket so that it gives a discreet "ping, ping," clearly audible to him, not disturbing to others...
Well Regimented. Last month the "smug, righteous" day people, as Shepherd calls them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded...
From Chicago, U.S.A. came a turbulent uproar. In a year when pundits were talking about "the American consensus" and the "reign of moderation," the Democratic immoderates charged full tilt into the nominating arena and set up a clangor that all but drowned out the normal sounds of the nation. The planning for next week's Republican Convention seemed to fall off to a whisper. And even the extraordinary White House meeting of the President, the Secretary of State and congressional leaders on the Suez crisis (see Foreign Relations) took on some aspects of a sideshow because the top Democrats...
...camera angles and shots speed by too rapidly. And who else would have dared to have Othello's final speech delivered straight upwards by a disservered head? The whole visual treatment, furthermore, is strikingly enhanced by the highly original musical score, featuring a wordless chorus and the forceful clangor of an over-amplified harpsichord...
...seem alien. Like any pianist, he laboriously cranked his piano stool up and down before getting down to business. Then, after the orchestra swept into the big, resonant opening chords, Gilels hammered out the all too familiar response with incredible vitality. His notes were crisp without dryness, brassy without clangor. With his chestnut hair tossing over his face, he played as if he believed that he was waging a titanic struggle against the inexorable orchestra...