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Scene: the balcony of the Brattle Theatre. Characters: Gardner, Sokolov, Auspitz, and Hiss...
...efforts is still a rather "live" room, but one which is infinitely comfortable to listen in. Most listening is done at a distance of fifteen to twenty feet from the speakers. This seems to add to the illusion of live performance, since imperfections such as surface noise, tape hiss, static, etc., are blended into the atmosphere. None of this would have been possible in an area smaller than his huge basement...
...suggests that, in Lowell's case at least, one man's muse is another man's poison. About half of the poems still show the smudge of translation; about half read like English originals composed by a talented foreigner. But a few of them roil and hiss with the vigor and brilliance that makes Lowell, at 44, one of America's major minor poets...
...Crusader Hiss (a third cousin of Alger) went on to help Sarasota start the state's first program for gifted children and its first merit pay system for teachers, then threw himself into Sarasota's campaign for a college. It failed when the new Florida Presbyterian College went to St. Petersburg and Tampa got the state-run University of South Florida. But the Congregationalists' Board of Home Missions listened. With well-heeled Sarasota willing and able to raise $4,000,000, the Congregationalists have promised $600,000 over ten years, plus expert help-and a guarantee...
...waterfront acres, including its first building - a 20-room, pink marble mansion built in 1927 by Circusman Charles Ringling, which adjoins the famed public art museum founded by Ringling's brother John. Using this nucleus, the trustees plan an eventual 200-acre campus, designed by top U.S. architects. Hiss himself is donating his own home for President Baughman...