Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blip rhythms bouncing onto radar screens from a network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced by thousands of hard-hatted men, their ears attuned, their hands ready at buttons, keys, switches, knobs, cranks and valves, their eyes darting from tube to dial, their pulses shooting over the unhurried step of time. And then the fire, the roar, the chorus of triumphant cries...
...such mad trifles as her One Finger Piano Concerto, her plugs for Sponsor Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations"), her weakness for clipping her boxwood hedge with George's electric razor. In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding. In desperation, he wired Gracie: "Can't you make a living any other...
Probably nowhere west of the BBC's Third Program could the twist of a radio dial bring such a flood of culture and sophisticated political variety. One day on San Francisco's KPFA-FM there was a book review by Bohemian Poet Kenneth Rexroth; the next, a talk by Art Critic Hubert Crehan on "The 'Scandalous' Art of D.H. Lawrence''; the day after, a performance of Paul Claudel's Christophe Colomb in French, with Jean-Louis Barrault, and for the kiddies a dramatization of The Wind in the Willows. Listeners could tune...
Then follow the host of "middle clubs," subject to gradation among themselves no doubt, though here any explicit ranking would be less objective and not generally conceded: Campus, Cannon, Charter, Cloister, Court, Dial, Elm, Key and Seal, Quadrangle, Terrace, and Tower. Dial took this year's only Negro...
...show's title refers to the viewer.) Pointing to a wall of narrow and squat open boxes rhythmically jammed with wood bits of all shapes, she says: "This is Cathedral in the Sky, man's temple to man. And over there is the Moon Dial, the clocking of man's eternal search for the serene. Behind it, the Heavenly Gate, and above it, the Cross. But I'm not talking about Christianity. I speak of total being...