Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRIENDSHIP AND FRATRICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS & ALGER HISS by Meyer A. Zeligs, M.D. 476 pages. Viking...
...whole new generation, the Hiss-Chambers case is only a dim memory or a hearsay mystery, but it retains its historical significance and fascination. If one assumes that Hiss was guilty, his behavior made perfect sense; by his denial of the charges against him, he was trying to hide his Communist past. But if one assumes that Hiss was innocent, the behavior of his accuser, Whittaker Chambers, made no sense at all; what could his motive have been for accusing an innocent man? The only plausible answer: he must have been mad. From the start, people who could not accept...
...Illinois Supreme Court has just ruled. The only issue is whether a witness is truthful. To be sure, said the court, the trial judge in the Alger Hiss case set an important precedent by permitting psychiatric testimony impeaching the credibility of Government Witness Whittaker Chambers. But that step is not necessary in all cases. "A psychopath," said the court, "has the capacity to observe, recollect and communicate, and is therefore a competent witness." If he is a liar, witnesses can testify that he has "a bad reputation for truth and veracity." After that, it is up to the jury...
...polytechnic, but the same optimistic cretin. In the person of Courtial, Celine pours all the vitriol of his prose on an age that believed science and progress would confer inestimable benefits upon mankind. Courtial's windy rhetoric on the subject of these benefits is mocked by the hiss of hot gases from his chronically punctured blimp. By the time the first great technological war breaks out, the point of Journey to the End of the Night has already been made: science has many unpleasant surprises as well as goodies in store...
...irony of the air-conditioner uproar is that, however unwanted the sound it makes on the outside, the hiss of air inside is just what the noise doctor ordered. Sound engineers refer to it as "white noise" or "acoustical perfume," and they use it widely, especially in offices, to blanket distracting sounds that spring out of silence into disconcerting acoustical relief. A too-silent Massachusetts Roman Catholic Church put in white noise to preserve the secrets of its confessionals...