Word: duds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beranek is the acoustician who designed Philharmonic Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. He spent four years planning what should be the country's leading concert hall, yet critics keep saying that he created an acoustical dud. See MUSIC...
...Lincoln Center management says New York Philharmonic Hall will be "the finest musical instrument in America." 1962: Hall opens. Critics say it is acoustical dud-mushy, strident, dry, opaque, flat, cold. Hall's 136 sound-reflecting "clouds," suspended from ceiling, are tilted, lowered, raised. No help. Diffusion of sound so unbalanced that best vantage point is, ironically, cheapest seat in top balcony. New York Philharmonic musicians complain they cannot hear each other onstage, say hall is glorified $17.7 million pinball machine. Mood of pessimism pervades. Rumors circulate that visiting orchestras are going to boycott splendorous blue-and-gold hall...
...Charles E. Goodell, chairman of the committee that produced the white paper, described it as "a work of scholarship" rather than a political document. He was right: it stated the history of the war dispassionately-if selectively-but as a vote getter or reputation smircher it was a dud. Ike declined to support the Republican paper, as did Everett Dirksen, who, like Eisenhower, has backed L.B.J. all the way on Viet...
Springfield fought back in the ninth inning after Harvard's rally had put the Crimson in front, 6 to 4. Larry Newman singled, Dud Davis walked, and a sacrifice put men on and second and third. But McCandlish hore down and got the next two batters to hit infield grounders, ending the game...
Mother was a coldly sadistic disciplinarian. Father was a well-intentioned fuddy-dud. Except for the fact that Father was also a judge, the story sounds like the childhood of thousands of people who end up in psychiatrists' offices. But Bill Sands ended up not on a couch but on "the Shelf"-jailbird slang for the solitary-confinement cells at San Quentin prison. Before he was 21, Sands was serving time on three convictions for armed robbery, with sentences in each of from one year to life, and had won a reputation as a con so "solid" that...