Word: muzak
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...Wagner, and a monster cocktail party with a flack-picked guest list. The kings, if any, have yet to make their appearance, the chauffeurs' waiting room has given way to a drive-yourself rental agency, and as for the late Mr. Bagby, he was not even replaced by Muzak. The one link to the Waldorf era: Claudius Charles Philippe, for many years the Waldorf's shrewd general factotum, is now the Tisches' executive vice president and general manager...
Although Mo Udall is more conservative than his big brother (Mo opposes farm supports, has mild reservations about federal aid to education), he seems to be a wild-eyed New Frontiersman compared with Mac Matheson, a former radio announcer who is now part owner of some Muzak franchises and who lost to Stew Udall last year. Devoted to Goldwater, Matheson strongly opposes federal aid to education, minimum wage legislation and the welfare state. Says he: "People are being offered a mess of welfare pottage in exchange for their American birthright...
...William B. Benton also quit the business in 1935, and like Bowles headed into the upper reaches of Democratic Party politics (as Bowles-appointed U.S. Senator from Connecticut) while staying in the upper brackets with his ownership of Muzak and his large holdings in the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...elevator car, even the Muzak was silent as conservative Art Editor Alexander Eliot flicked his beard thoughtfully and pronounced: "The lack of horizontal accents on the outside makes for an intensely dramatic but unassuring effect-like an exclamation point." Up in the new quarters, corridors with vinyl floors, offices with deep-pile carpeting suggested the passageways and staterooms of a transatlantic liner...
...selections between the familiar and the obscure. Adeste Fidelis is included, but so is a very simple and fine carol by one John Billings, called A Virgin Unspotted. The unhackneyed pieces, together with the unhackneyed approach, remove the record from the realm of Christmas tree baubles and Muzak in Filene's basement...