Word: hi-fi
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...nudes-is-bad-nudes school. "Phi-Phi" is Athens' famed Sculptor Phidias, who as the curtain rises is out looking for a model for his new statue of Virtue. The action calls for everybody to take off his or her clothes, and even the highest hi-fi sets cannot yet reproduce that effect. But there is some pleasant singing...
...partitions." Each bunk is equipped with a bed lamp and a pocket for books. Each tier of three has a fireproof, "Sandbrown" curtain, and most are ventilated with electric fans. There are nearly twice as many lockers as sailors aboard. Each compartment has folding chairs, a table and a hi-fi radio speaker as standard equipment...
Expensive equipment is not necessarily a guarantee against such hazards. But a good hi-fi system must include at least a turntable (price $60), a diamond stylus ($20) and magnetic cartridge ($15), a good amplifier ($100), and a loudspeaker system ($150) which now usually consists of at least one woofer (a speaker designed to reproduce low tones) and tweeter (high tones). Tweeters may be cones (sweet, not too brilliant), horns (plenty of highs and often tinny), or the newly developed electrostatic type, in which a flat sheet of metal foil moves in the open air. Most speakers still need...
...bane of hi-fi wives, perhaps because female ears are more sensitive to high frequencies than the male...
...strong dissenting opinion to all of hi-fi was filed by an indignant Briton who recently wrote to High Fidelity magazine: "I fail to see what pleasure there is in having to have a unit with as many as 16 knobs and selector switches . . . Me, I am so old-fashioned that my home-built [unit] has no tone control . . . Furthermore, I am sure that I have rumble-pardon...