Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hybrid electric sitar and an electric bazouki, both designed for the Dan-electro Corp. by Guitarist Vincent Bell and clearly aimed at capitalizing on the Indian music fad that is sweeping across the U.S. pop scene. Bell's sitar is really an ordinary six-string guitar with a special bridge and a set of twelve sympathetically vibrating strings to reproduce the sitar's characteristic "buzzy" sound and echoing overtones; the instrument can also be fingered and chorded just like a guitar...
Even those retained to work on the new, enlarged morning Herald (to be called the Boston Herald-Traveler) aren't too happy. Despite Akerson's rousing statements about the wonderful possibilities for the new hybrid, many of them fear that the Herald will soon follow the Traveler's steps. This isn't too likely since the Herald, which carries the New York' Times news dispatches, is a fairly solid and well-liked paper. But some staffers see a grizzly connection between the Record-American's need for a new plant, the death of the Traveler, and the Herald-Traveler...
...inevitable dependence on science and technology are nonsense. Modern man, he says, is a victim of a "radical misinterpretation" of human development. Furthermore, the machine will either turn him into a collectivized, automatic non-person or blow him back to the jungle. The Myth of the Machine is hybrid literature-part history, part anthropology, part poetry. It is a violent, splenetic attack on much that has happened in civilization for the past several millennia, and it occasionally approaches the absurd. But the range of its erudition and imagination makes it good intellectual entertainment. It is a book to start arguments...
...newspapers, some of the most important new language and news in recent years has concerned the condition of the city itself. As billions of dollars are spent on the revitalization of dying downtowns, as crumbling old neighborhoods are bulldozed away, as the past gives way to the present, a hybrid journalist is developing-the urban reporter-critic. Reporting, he keeps citizens abreast of what's going up and coming down, what city planners envision for the future. Criticizing, he serves as a civic conscience-denouncing the banal, calling for conservation of the historic or unique, pointing out that planners...
Under Justin's guidance, Twiggy has become not just a model but an industry. Already he has helped her to set up Twiggy Enterprises, Ltd., of which he is a partner. Soon there will be Twiggy boutiques and a Twiggy line of clothes (first design: a belted hybrid toga and kimono), and negotiations are under way with a cosmetics house in Paris for a Twiggy perfume. For a career that began only nine months ago, such success is at the moment all too intoxicating, and Justin is keeping his fingers crossed. "I almost starved," says...