Word: echoeing
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...speaker purified of the music amplification. The digital delay unit compensates for the difference in the speed of electricity and the speed of sound. In past outdoor festivals, music from speakers a half mile away would wash back over the audience in weird waves of sound like an echo chamber. The digital delay unit let the music come out in total synchronization. But of course no one could hear a note in synchronization with the hand that struck it. There was a half second delay between ears and eyes...
...Nixon conceded: "Confidence in our management of our fiscal affairs is low, at home and abroad." As to the freeze, which the President imposed against the advice of his aides, he said: "The freeze is holding down production and creating shortages that threaten to get worse." In a feeble echo of his former self. Nixon concluded: "We should not despair of our plight...
...glass-roofed elevator-"so you can look at the clouds." His own designs, from Washington's Arena Stage theater to the U.S. embassy in Ghana, are similarly lyric, and they always respect their architectural context. In his Walton Apartments in Chicago, for example, he used bay windows to echo those used by the city's great turn-of-the-century architects: Daniel Burnham, John Root, Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. Says Weese: "I would rather match a cornice line, or set one that could be matched, than try to build a spectacular building that stands by itself...
...they are in the rest of the world. U.S. Travel Service officials calculate that they will leave behind some $3.7 billion this year, thus helping considerably to offset the $6.2 billion that U.S. tourists are expected to spend abroad in 1973. More important, most will return home to echo the sentiments of Suzy Lafont-and thereby ratify the ultimate value of national hospitality. Says she: "All our friends are waiting for us to return and tell them about our trip. We are going to make very good propaganda for America...
...year for radical student revolt, 1969 was the heyday for militant Feminism. Mention "'69" to anyone who participated and watch the lines in her face tighten with nostalgia. She too looks as if the phrase were but an echo, or a ghost of an activism that passed away somewhere, she's not sure where...