Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul has given considerable thought to echoes. A good echo effect can be produced in a radio studio with a twist of a dial. But Paul finds that inadequate. "I got a better echo by putting Mary and a mike in a bathroom. That's how we recorded the Rheingold Beer commercials." For a still bigger echo, he uses two tape recorders, running them a split second apart...
...handful of the 3,500 British oilmen who had tended the fires lovingly (and profitably) since they first flamed aloft had gone home. Darkness closed in along the neat cement walks separating the rows of bungalows where they had lived. The only sounds in the deserted town were the echo of Iranian sentries' boots and the whimper of an abandoned dog sniffing vainly for the scent of his British master...
Last week, when it seemed that the Gómez scandals had long since become nothing more than talk for oldtimers, there came a faint but ringing echo from the regime of rape and rapaciousness. A shrunken man in his 70s stood before a court in law-abiding San Jose, Costa Rica, and paid a fine after conviction on a morals charge involving minor girls. The culprit was sick and lonely but no down & outer. An arrogant sybarite, wealthy from U.S. investments, with a fierce, bristling mustache, he gave his name to the court as Santos Matute...
...spiritual purging of unheard-of suffering . . ." At this point Richter, the neo-Nazi, stomped from the chamber. But when Adenauer finished his address, the rest of the Bundestag rose in a standing ovation. As Adenauer hurried off the rostrum, speakers for all major parties came forward to echo and endorse his sentiments. All, that is, but the Communists...
Even now, in what sounds like an echo from an old Greenwich Village bull session, he believes that "the whole aim of the gang that runs Russia, U.S.A., Britain and France is to destroy the contemplative life altogether." Short on formal education (he went to medical school straight from high school), he has tried to make a virtue of the literary amateurism that still keeps cropping up in the careless writing of Autobiography...