Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GOLDEN ECHO (272 pp.)-David Garnett-Harcourt, Brace...
Advice from George. The Golden Echo is a "picture of a literary generation" as well as a self-portrait. But it is additionally a well-done picture of what it meant to grow up in a world where the ring of the doorbell might announce the arrival of anything from a female Czarist assassin to corpulent Hilaire Belloc. In those days, young Garnett had no intention of surprising the world, as he did in the '30s, with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when...
...golden echo" that rings throughout his book is of an English era when thoughtful men and women (except for those in Brixton) were so unconstricted and free from world-worry that the occasional explosions of war and revolution fell on their ears like detonations from another planet. So inbred was their sense of imperturbable peace that, when World War I broke out, none suspected that it was sounding the knell of the golden echo. Indeed, Author Garnett; fussing with his fungi, saw no need to join the army. His friend John Maynard Keynes (who grew up to be the great...
...Yachting Audar. A compact communications and navigation aid for small ships has been developed by Manhattan's Radio Industries Corp. Working on the same principles as echo-ranging radar, but sending out high-pitched "beeps" of sound instead of pulses of electrical energy...
Today, his style remains pretty much the same, but he has escaped gimmicks ("Sure there's a fast buck in the echo chamber, but it can't last"). His only trick lies in changing the pace of the songs he records (e.g., jump tunes, ballads, well-written novelty songs). "Music is getting better," Frankie says, and so is he. "Everything's ahead of me. Man, I'm on top of the world. I'm buoyant...