Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while the Post's sister publications, Holiday and Jack and Jill, were the property of a corporate hybrid called the Saturday Evening Post Co. Last week some semblance of the good old days was restored when Curtis reacquired Jack and Jill and Holiday. Simultaneously, there came an echo of the era when kids could earn roller skates, baseball mitts and bikes by selling Post subscriptions. Henceforth, announced the November issue of Jack and Jill, kids who manage to talk their friends into buying subscriptions will be rewarded with the 1969 equivalent of the bike and skates: 500 Green Stamps...
Noel Coward pours the froth of inflection as if it were the champagne of wit. He is a connoisseur of surfaces, a sealer of the comic Everests of trivia. His plays are echo chambers of his own voice. His cool, clipped speech serves as an ironically British parody of the stiff upper...
...Echo Chamber. The solar-wind spectrometer was also working well, even though it had, for the moment, little to detect; the moon was passing through the earth's magnetic tail (April 22, 1966), which shielded the lunar surface from the high-velocity solar particles that normally bombard it. Meanwhile, the seismometer had recorded an unexplained, two-minute tremor. And scientists were still trying to explain the strange vibrations recorded for 55 minutes by the instrument immediately after Intrepid's ascent stage impacted into the Ocean of Storms...
...effect may have been caused, he said, by a layer of rubble or fractured rock sandwiched between bedrock in the floor of the Ocean of Storms and a solid cover of fine material deposits above. Lacking dampening fluids or gases, the layer of rubble may have acted as an echo chamber in which the seismic waves reverberated. If so, the next big seismic event on the moon should be a scientific spectacular; the third-stage rocket of Apollo 13's Saturn 5 will be sent crashing into the lunar surface, creating an impact equivalent to the explosion...
...advocacy of the conspiracy theory of government, Z provides echo chambers of horror. The series of stop motion pictures of the Deputy's death revives involuntary memories of the Zapruder film. The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies. But essentially Z is grinding its ax not for politicians but for politics. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom; beneath the idea of order-in Eastern Europe, says the film, as well as in Greece-truly anarchic forces are loosed upon the world. The Greek letter Z is a symbol...