Word: echoeing
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...much with us that most of the time it's near impossible to be at ease if we're not at the rally. And these days nearly every hour there's a rally we're not going to if we're not there. (I hear a muffled echo out my window; is it a chanting crowd or just the traffic...
...world: the meaning of Israel. To non-Jews, modern Israel is simply a nation with an unusual heritage of religious history. For most Jews, though, it is not only a historical homeland but part of an eternal theological reality, as Heschel argues in a new book called Israel: An Echo of Eternity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $5.50). Part poetry, part polemic, part plea, the book stems from his response to the 1967 war. Though one of Judaism's most admired religious thinkers-he is professor of ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary-Heschel admits that...
...amplifiers, mixers, filters anc voltage-controlled oscillators. Some ol these, connected to the keyboard, trigger various "raw" sounds, such as "sawtooth" waves and "white noise." Other parts then modify the raw sounds by controlling their attack, volume and rate of decay, and by adding such characteristics as vibrato or echo. Complicated combinations of sounds-like the counterpoint and chords of Carlos' Bach album-are achieved by taping each series of sounds as they are produced, then combining them on multiple tracks of the same tape...
...power. To her, Mussolini and his Fascisti offer humanity's best hope. She sends one girl packing to fight in Spain for the Falangists-where she is killed. Her favorite informant (Pamela Franklin) turns against her and squeals to the authorities. "Assassin!" shrieks Miss Brodie, and the echoing walls provide a bogus, melodramatic echo...
...NATION was once mortgaged to the railroads, that mortgage has long since been paid off. Boston's South Station is so empty your footsteps echo as they would in a deserted cathedral. Its cavernous waiting room is almost vacant except for a few stubborn worshippers. Now there are just commuter trains and a couple of runs to new York. Once South Station could have been the setting for any of those postwar movies in which the returning soldier watches June Allison waiting ecstatically for him as he struggles through the crowds, finally to embrace her. The movie was long...