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...perfection through hifi. Conductors and singers carefully study playbacks of their concerts, and composers use more subtle instrumental blends. Says one composer: "I think the whole Berlioz revival owes a lot to high fidelity. His orchestration always sounded muddy on old sets." Listeners are also developing their tastes: a fluff may be forgiven in a concert hall, but hearing it again and again on a record may lead the buyer to complain. Cracks Recordmaker Peter Bartok (son of the late great Béla): "The listener is a damn nuisance." Nuisance or not, today's listener is part...
wrote a long poem bemoaning today's loaves of "processed fluff." TIME'S Gwyneth Kahn answered: "In many ways the good old days aren't what they used to be. One can well mourn: A book of Kinsey underneath the bough, A jug of noncaloric coke, and thou Beside me, slicing loaves of processed fluff -Alas ! This is not Paradise enough...
...industry was demonstrated by the Hunt Loom & Machine Works of Greenville, S.C. Using oil-impregnated bushings and nylon gears, the loom needs no lubrication, thus eliminates the oil and grease stains usually splattered by conventional looms, and has an overhead blower system that sucks up lint and fluff. With 55 fewer parts than an ordinary loom, it cuts the cost of replacing parts 70% (as much as $3,000 a week in a 2,000-loom mill), shaves the cost of cleaning a loom from $90 to $60 a year. Hunt already has orders for more than 900. Price...
...Little Novels of Sicily (Grove). Verga, who died in 1922, was one of Italy's great writers, and these strong, tender stories of life at its most universal levels are among his best. After Verga, Frenchman Gil Buhet's The Innocent Knights (Viking) may seem like Gallic fluff. Actually, it is a charming story about a gang of schoolboys who shut themselves up in a moated ruin until their unjust elders and schoolmasters are ready to treat them like human beings...
...they are shoved and twisted by faint electrical fields. In the huge eyepiece, the scattered electrons are counted, their new paths traced. All their measurements told the Hofstadter team that though the center of the nucleus is 130 trillion times denser than water, its edge thins down to cottony fluff...