Word: fi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is undoubtedly too much buying for show, status and the sheer pleasure of expensive gadgetry. Perhaps the audio addict spent ridiculous amounts of money on massive monaural hi-fi rigs. But he later switched to stereo and small speakers not out of mere faddism but because they were better. Basically, the American wants what is best, not what will last forever. What upwardly mobile American really wants a car that will last 30 years, as he watches newer models go by, with power steering and brakes, pushbutton windows, et al. Or the refrigerator without automatic defrosting? The stove without...
...learned Dr. H. Angus Bowes was presenting a learned paper before a meeting of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association in Manhattan. The subject: "Psychopathology of the Hi-Fi Addict...
...Naturally," said Dr. Bowes, "the less organized will treat their hi-fi set rather like the emotionally immature treat a car-as an expression of aggression, as a power symbol. To many it has a sexual connotation. Perhaps in the twiddling of knobs there may be a masturbatory equivalent. Certainly the ability to take control of a situation relieves anxiety, and what control is given to the manipulator of a hi-fi apparatus when with the flick of a wrist he may attenuate his treble, emphasize his bass, turn down the volume to a whisper, or blast the neighbors with...
Psychiatrist Bowes, director of the Institute of Neurology and Psychological Medicine in Grand Forks, N. Dak., spoke from intimate experience. At 55, he is undoubtedly one of the most hopeless hi-fi addicts who ever attenuated a treble. Last week, while on vacation in London, he relieved some of his anxieties by hiring 63 off-duty members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to record his favorite ballet music from Verdi's Sicilian Vespers and Rossini's William Tell. Bowes first hit on the tape-it-yourself idea while visiting a musician friend who was making a recording...
Fantastic Voyage is the most expensive ($6,500,000) sci-fi spectacle of all time, and maybe the most entertaining since the world was terrorized by a hairy rubber doll named King Kong...