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...free testing. Because of Victoreen's highly individual theories about sound transmission and reproduction, the Vicon contains not one microphone but four. With four batteries it is bulkier and heavier (6½ oz.) than other transistor aids. Doctors do not object to this; they generally deplore the fad for smallness and concealment. Men wear it under their shirts, suspended from a harness around their necks; women can clip it to a reinforced shoulder strap...
...aftermath of World War II spawned no identifiable Lost Generation, but it did bring a word for intellectuals to play with: existentialism. At first it appeared to be nothing but a new French fad-redolent of sex, sidewalk cafes, tight blue jeans and Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist...
...think your June 18 article on rock-'n'-roll music is ridiculous. This type of music is for young people to enjoy while they can, not for crusading adult hypocrites and pessimists to criticize and discriminate. The rock-'n'-roll fad is equivalent to the Charleston and its music of the '20s. There were people like you then to condemn this fad...
...modern architecture in churches is just a fad, said Church Architect Benjamin F. Olsen of Chicago, president of the Illinois Society of Architects. "It reminds me of a naughty child, standing on his head to attract attention when company comes," he said. And, he asked, what will the modern ones look like in 25 years, after the "newness has worn...
...think there's any correlation between juvenile delinquency and rock 'n' roll, but rock 'n' roll is a symptom of a condition that can produce delinquency." Even Boston's fired-up anti-r. & r. campaigners concede that "it is a fad that has been adopted by the hoodium element, and that's where the trouble starts." A Bridgeport, Conn, mental hygiene expert with a long memory feels that the music is no more suggestive than swing, and that the youthful dances are no more dangerous than the Charleston. Pop Record Maker Mitch Miller...