Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continent today is a sleekly handsome French monthly. Its name: Réaltiés. Although only ten years old, Réaltiés has built the biggest subscription circulation (191,500) of any magazine in France. In sharp contrast to many French publications, which dutifully echo the views of whichever political party may buy or back them, Réaltiés is financially and politically independent, has nothing to sell but honest reporting. "We have never had to ask for outside support," said Réaltiés Editor Alfred Max last week. "As a result...
...from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...
...every singer right down to Rosemary Clooney and Eartha Kitt. Lizzie is surviving handsomely, in person. Her voice has a brazen ring and a driving spirit; if she sings a bit flat here and there, she is always steady on the beat. Above all, she brings an au hentic echo of a past jazz age that the youngsters in her audience never knew and the oldtimers tearfully remember...
...Many a community in Britain where the national papers are read also has its own "provincial" daily, e.g., the Yorkshire Evening Post, Liverpool Echo, etc. They are not only much smaller than the national popular dailies but usually much quieter and less sensational as well...
...just settling into bed when the house cracked open. "We're in for it," he yelled to the wife, pushing her and the children under the bed. "We could hardly breathe with the vacuum and the dust," he said later. "It was like being in an echo box, with everybody yelling so loud you couldn't hear...