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...liven up the opening of a mental health exhibit in London, Britain's waggish Minister of Labor, Sir Walter Monckton, tried on a brain-wave recording device for size, came out looking as if he were a fugitive from a Martian barbershop...
...resulting inequitable distribution will not disappear, however, until the House stereotypes that cause them are destroyed. At the present rate, rather than dying out, the stereotypes cannot help perpetuating themselves. A student who enters a House hoping to find a party atmosphere, for example, will naturally help liven the festive air already there. Freshmen who dislike a House's label because they do not fit it will apply else-here. Housemasters, even those seeking varied composition, are largely limited to students who apply either as first, second, or third choice. So a House's atmosphere, at first derived from Master...
...What makes records better today is not so much electronic as esthetic know-how. To recreate "concert-hall realism." the recording director jockeys heavy, sound-absorbing flats around the studio, hangs big curtains across the hall, or records the sound "dead" and pipes it into a reverberation chamber to liven it up again. But there is now a sharp division of opinion on what is a "faithful" recording. Some sound men believe in much clipping of flawed passages and splicing in better ones from other takes. Others prefer to capture the heat of an inspired performance despite some imperfections...
Communist Correspondents Alan Winnington and Wilfred Burchett, serving as stage managers, did their best to liven the proceedings: "Hi. Al. Hello, Dick, how's everything?" But as prisoner after prisoner stood before the TV and newsreel came:as. each repeated the same, dull set piece: "We believe that our greatest task is to keep the peace and win democracy for our people, but if we return, our voices would be silenced. That is why we are here...
...other threads come in to liven the black field of one man's struggle. There is the rowdy good comedy of the soldiers' night out at the "New Congress Club." There is the sweet-sad story of Frew's love for a warmhearted doxy with visions of respectability. (Where the book bluntly called the girl a whore, the film manages to make the point by including her in some of the most realistic brothel scenes ever splattered on the face of the screen.) There is by contrast the fierce meeting of First Sergeant Warden and the captain...