Word: mix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos: giant rotary dumpers empty four railroad gondolas simultaneously, and within minutes electronically mix the different coals into a desired blend...
Shoot the President. All this freedom has consequences, some not good. Diverse and isolated, Cornellians tend to live in their own little ruts. They flock to 14 sororities and 53 fraternities, but the mix is mostly emulsion. Bright ones complain of faculty inattention. In fact, most arts students go through without seminars, independent study or senior theses...
...Bland Mix. Sparks planned the Christys merely as a recording group, but Columbia Records demanded they stay together fulltime and build an "in-person vitality" and an audience. Starting off with a week's engagement at Hollywood's Troubadour Cafe last July, they did so well that they stayed for three months, with crowds jamming the entrance and queuing up around the block...
Onstage, the Christys are one of the healthiest spectacles imaginable. They trot out from the wings, line up playfully, start right feet tapping in heavy unison, and burst into song. Their music is a bland mix of broad harmonies, familiar tunes, corny humor and just enough of the folk music spirit to cash in on the most avid adult record buyer-the man whose ear has been tuned by popular music but whose developing tastes lead him to folk music. Where the purer folk singers such as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger alienate some audiences with their austerity, the impure...
When the set is working, people watch a lot of television, and they are generally satisfied with what they see. Those interviewed seemed to feel that the programs--and the programs mix--were good. Certain aspects of programming were criticized, particularly TV violence and interruptive, infantile commercials. It is interesting that the distaste for commercials apparently does not stem from any general resentment of sponsor advertisements. Fully 75 per cent of the survey felt that the sponsors were entitled to their...