Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie need not have worried. At Philharmonic Hall, the 1,500 who had paid $10 and $25 admission, plus the 1,200 who had paid $100 and $250 apiece for a black-tie champagne reception after the films, cheered him to the echo when he appeared with Oona in the first tier, and they watched the Little Tramp on-screen with such delighted empathy that the big concert hall all but glowed in the dark. When the movies were over, the audience turned in sudden, shouting ovation toward the dignified old man looking down on them, whose spry shadow...
Beneath the enthusiasm evident all over China the visitor senses an almost palpable current of restraint and hesitancy-a whiff, perhaps, of the kind of fretful, nervous caution that pervaded Russia during the Stalin era. There is an echo of Stalinism in the prevalence of the cult of Mao, which overwhelms the visitor. The country seems slightly dazed, as if only recently emerged from shock therapy. There is a visible effort to blend in, not to be singled out because of deviant actions or opinions...
Switching. That may require very complex electronics. A depthfinder, for instance, works by bouncing sound waves off the ocean floor and clocking how long it takes them to return. Thus the intervals between the original signals and their echoes are actually measurements of depth. But before such measurements can be visually displayed, they must first be converted into an electric current with fluctuations that precisely mirror those echo intervals. The reason is that the depthfinder is, in effect, a miniature computer or switching system. Only those circuits linked to the appropriate diode segments will be switched on with each fluctuation...
...interior design of St. Paul's Church is, to use the polite word, eclectic. Regardless of that, its acoustics are superb and the two-second echo is a pleasure to hear. Conductor F. John Adams was rigorous in his programming: he chose works by six composers of the Tudor period, a relatively limited historical pool from which to draw compared to the Bach-to-Stravinsky expanse that usually leaves everyone dissatisfied in some way. Adams's approach to programming is commendable for it ensures both an interested, attentive audience (who have come for a specific type of music), as well...
...done everything we ask today." Thoroughgoing equality under the law would not change every custom and practice, but social change is the more difficult without legal reform. In any case, "the articulation of legal protections for women has begun," says EEOC Legislative Counsel Sonia Pressman Fuentes. "Already women can echo the words of Martin Luther King: 'We ain't what we oughta be, we ain't what we wanta be, we ain't what we gonna be but thank God we ain't what...