Word: hi-fi
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...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...
...hair nerves as city life. "Take a group of skeet shooters who have been at it for five or ten years; every single one has got a severe high-frequency loss." Glorig tested the Marine Band and found that about half of its players had damaged hearing. Hi-fi can be a hazard with earphones, which can easily develop 135 decibels with the volume turned up all the way; but the living-room listener is safe. Ear-fearful citizens can tell when to start worrying by three Glorig rules of thumb. If a noise is loud enough to make people...
...love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie's car, nearly blows her mother to smithereens, finally has the poor girl kidnaped. After doing penance in jail, he turns up again at her dressy wedding reception in a monkey suit...
...SHOW. Styled after the sappy smile of Mad magazine's trademark moron, Alfred E. Neuman, this revue tickles where it might have stung. But its cast still reaches the funny bone, satirizing everything from soap-flake operas to hi-fi nuts...