Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college illiteracy, Graber firmly believes, is TV's strictly phonetic teaching. The more the student watches TV, the more he learns new words through spoken rather than written language. "Because of the slovenliness of American speech and the ease with which words can be misunderstood, he does not hear the word correctly. Since he does very little reading, he has no idea that he is using the wrong word, for he has never seen the expression in print...
...song with the "singer" on the screen. The offbeat result helps the audience identify Lata. And in Indian movies (TIME, Jan. 5)-three-hour, syrupy soap operas relieved by interludes of pop music-the audience likes to know who is actually carrying the tune. With Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites in any one of twelve Indian dialects, and her popularity is such that she never changes her soft tone .or lilting style to fit the character on the screen. The effect is as if Doris Day did the singing for Baritone Tallulah Bankhead, Monotone Marilyn Monroe and Tammytone...
...cabaret in Leningrad. The big surprise was how well up the Russians are on every U.S. style from old-time gutbucket New Orleans to brassy progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone." had everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Dave Brubeck and Sarah Vaughan. Poorer musicians who cannot tape or smuggle...
...gain his place on the Crane board, was taken aback by Evans' maneuvers, questioned whether he was housecleaning too fast and hard. But Evans, who built Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co. from a money-losing locomotive manufacturer to a twelve-division, $137 million industrial combine, would hear none of it. Shuffling between his Greenwich, Conn, home and several cities, he worked harder and more ruthlessly to increase profits for Crane and solidify his power. Evans shifted about Crane's operations, began plans to get into the production of valves for use in oilfields. While Crane...
...range of Jacksonville's WAPE-are assaulted by the monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll. A three-minute trickle of news every two hours is the only relief; every station break is loud with the lovesick ape. The continuous uproar is so hypnotic that few who hear it seem anxious-or able-to turn it off. Last week one-year-old WAPE finished its fourth month as the top-rated station in a highly competitive nine-station town...