Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer terminal. In the cafeteria a radio speaker has been playing classical music all night to an empty room. At midnight the music yields to a recording of two comedians performing live. They're telling jokes and singing folk songs in a thick Yiddish accent. Applause and laughter echo from the radio into the darkness...
...Brigham Young. The edifice has been a mixed blessing: it has no lobby (latecomers must wait outside), no toilet facilities and no upholstery upon its hardwood benches. Its acoustics are very tricky: a tourist standing 200 feet away can hear a pin drop on stage, but the echo from the vaulted ceiling can be so bad that a new drummer once played the entire Ravel Bolero four beats late. The new arts center will be ready...
Former Air Force Staff Sergeant Steve Kiba, held by the Chinese for 32 months during the Korean War, is even tougher on Patty, though some of his own experiences seem to echo hers. To disorient American flyers, their captors kept moving them from cell to cell, from prison to prison-a pattern that suggests the S.L.A., perpetually on the move. For nine months the P.O.W.s were not allowed to bathe. In one session, Kiba was asked the same question for 18 hours straight. What Patty Hearst went through, he says disdainfully, was only "a miniature, a sample." And any physical...
...that Pannenberg wants to shun society. He simply fears that a Christianity content merely to echo the activist slogans of the secular world will lose its long-range social influence. To accomplish social good, Christians must first rethink their "spiritual center...
Statistics echo the game's close score. The Elis outblundered Harvard in the turnover department, 18-15, but outshot the Crimson in the crucial second half, 56-40 per cent. Harvard barely controlled the boards, 33-32, though the Crimson had seven less chances at the charity stripe during the contest...