Word: indistinctness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ignore House loyalties, the House dignitaries have preferred isolationism to cooperation. The original proposals for inter-House integration if carried out efficiently could have helped Freshmen to make friends among their own class and would have halted the rapidly growing segregation which is breaking classes and ages into an indistinct, confused muddle from which only further dislocation can come...
...microphone is that only the orchestra records well, while the vocal parts are always confused and unclear. The soloists sound as though coming out of a distant fog, and are often completely drowned out by the orchestra. The chorus similarly, when it sings softly, becomes only an indistinct blur; when it opens up the stops, it creates a great huge blaze of speaker-shattering noise. All this could have been avoided with a little preparation. But the sloppiness did not end here. The cut-offs at the ends of records are abominably handled, coming often in the middle...