Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels of Thomas Wolfe often seem written at the top of his voice, shouted in the mingled accents of Coleridge, Melville, Tolstoy, Joyce and Walt Whitman, accompanied by the basso profundo of Ecclesiastes. But Wolfe was more than an echo chamber. Though writing in the manner of many men, what he had to say was pre-eminently his own, and he came excitingly close to creating the long-anticipated Great American Novel...
...Echo from the Moon. The collision warner is the latest electronics breakthrough by Arthur A. Collins, 47, the company's founder-president and electronics genius. Collins has captured 80% of the U.S. commercial-airlines market and 60% to 70% of the free-world foreign market in airborne electronics, i.e., equipment for navigation, instrument landing, flight direction, automatic piloting, weather radar. His equipment operates along the U.S.'s and Canada's far northern Distant Early Warning (DEW) line. His young company, which grew from a gross of $722,000 in 1940 to $123 million in fiscal...
...rest of his life. "It is not an easy place to leave," he said sadly. "I hate to go." Then he thought of the future and the past, and added: "There will be more interest in who will succeed me than in my passing. I'm an echo...
...autobiographer is lucky if his subject is a fascinating fellow. David Garnett, Britain's eminent, aging (64) novelist and critic, has accomplished the next best thing by having a lot of fascinating pals. In The Golden Echo, the first volume of his autobiography (TIME, May 24, 1954), Garnett told of his childhood among such literary greats as Joseph Conrad, who taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard...
...Madonna del Carmine, for as well as being the brawlingest quarter of Rome, Trastevere boasts the first church ever built in Rome to the glory of the Madonna. But with the procession over, the solemnity is at an end, and for two weeks the alleys of Trastevere echo to the bellowing of bawdy street songs as the Trasteverini give themselves over to abandoned enjoyment. All traffic stops as tray-bearing waiters hustle through streets jammed with the tables and chairs of the celebrators. And high above the confusion and gaiety ring out the bells of Trastevere's churches...