Word: echoeing
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According to Hawthorne's short story The Maypole of Merry Mount, the peal of a psalm from Plymouth would occasionally collide with "the chorus of a jolly catch" from Merry-Mount and echo in a splendid confusion of styles. Suppose a little band of displaced Americans had lived exactly in the middle, in that no man's land between culture and counterculture. Suppose they had listened to that collision of psalm and catch tune for weeks, for months. Would the double echo have ceased to be two competing sounds? Would one new sound have fallen...
...annual budget of $10 million comes from sales of CR (60? on newsstands) and occasional books on consumer topics. Most of the revenue is turned back into more product testing. But this year $3,000,000 will be spent on what Consumers Union, in an uncharacteristic echo of Madison Avenue euphemese, calls "income procurement." That means promotion to sell more copies of the magazine...
...Phyllis Schlafly, in her late forties and the author of A Choice Not an Echo, which sounded the theme for Barry Goldwater's disastrous 1964 campaign, is a Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois. A blunt conservative who advocates a military establishment beyond the wildest dreams of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she also sees her role as that of a "congressional watchdog" over excessive govern mental expenditures...
...minerals and vitamins in cereals, on the grounds that too much of these good things can be harmful to some people. The FDA is backed by the American Dietetic Association, but opposed by the American Medical Association. While the great breakfast-food debate goes on, many parents can echo the tag line of a cartoon in the Arkansas Gazette: "Isn't anything sacred any more...
...Russians, in a sense, were acting like lawyers for their Arab clients; so, too, in an international-adversary situation, was the U.S. on behalf of Israel. It is precisely this echo of ordinary law practices in world affairs that intrigues Rogers and leads him to approach his duties from a lawyer's point of view. Rogers' approach to the law is low-key and cautious. In private practice, where between Administrations he earned $300,000 a year in corporate law (among his clients: the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Associated Press), Rogers was noted...