Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another questioner asked how Harvard's Russian Research Center avoided being an "echo of Communist propaganda." President Pusey replied that the scholar "is the last to reflect propaganda." He further asserted that "the belief that teachers are corrupted by the party line is a myth...
...lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote in the American that Starker "has grown from an important cellist to an incomparable one," and the rest of the press gave echo...
...musicians played their instruments no better than necessary to pass muster under the mellow fog. Until the electronic age, except for musicians playing outdoors, everybody was accustomed to the old sound. When Toscanini first walked into NBC's studio 8-H, he clapped his hands, heard the echo die within a second and passed his judgment: "Too sec" i.e., dry. He was referring to the shorter reverberation time, achieved by acoustical engineers who could prove that it made music sound clearer. At Kresge, the reverberation time is 1½ seconds, actually a compromise, but unusually sec to conventional ears...
...educators, "college professors, who must further train for intellectual leadership much of the product of the schools, and who know also something about why college graduates avoid schoolteaching, were not in evidence." Worse still: the final reports to the conference on the six topics discussed did nothing more than echo an educationist party line...
Boise, Idaho (pop. 50,000), the state capital, is usually thought of as a boisterous, rollicking he-man's town, and home of the rugged Westerner. In the downtown saloons of the city a faint echo of Boise's ripsnorting frontier days can still be heard, but its quiet residential areas and 70 churches give the city an appearance of immaculate respectability. Recently, Boiseans were shocked to learn that their city had sheltered a widespread homosexual underworld that involved some of Boise's most prominent men and had preyed on hundreds of teen-age boys...