Word: muzakized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music has sloshed around inside his head, and, relieved of the humdrum business of thinking, he feels better immediately. His mouth smiles. He likes his work, loves his wife, spends his money. The only thing he has to fear is silence, but thanks to a company called Muzak and its many imitators in the background music business, he has nothing to worry about. Loudspeakers are everywhere...
...total musication of America is by now almost complete. Muzak gets the credit for being the biggest noise maker of all, a feat that brings in $15,000,000 a year from its 30,000 subscribers. The soft comforting sounds that ooze from Muzak's speakers are heard each day by more than 60 million people-in hospitals and mortuaries, elevators and space capsules, prisons and jute mills. It even plays during all top secret conferences in the Pentagon, where its mission is to confound eavesdroppers by drowning out all the secret talk. If there is something faintly Chaplinesque...
...Hills are already full of them-transistorized, chrome, four-speaker, stereophonic cartridge models, activated by the car battery. Frank Sinatra's Riviera has one. So have such clan wagons as Dean Martin's Corvette and Peter Lawford's Ghia. Tape recorders also make a sound like Muzak in James Garner's Jaguar, Red Skelton's Rolls and Lawrence Welk's Dodge convertible...
...decorations in the hotel had been imported from Red China in violation of U.S. law that American citizens cannot deal with the Red Chinese; it all had to be replaced with substitutes. In London the automatic-elevator doors closed so fast, the telephones worked so sporadically and the Muzak system sometimes shrieked so loudly that Hilton had to dispatch experts from the U.S. to straighten things out. The air-conditioning failed in one of the New York Hilton's kitchens, driving the heat up so high that it set off the fire sprinklers and drenched the chef...
After a hard day's doom-crying in Manhattan, the Malian diplomats and their families, led by Ambassador Sori Coulibaly, will be able to relax in the Pine Room listening to piped-in Muzak, or stroll through the formal gardens and the three greenhouses. Muscular Malians can choose between a lighted swimming pool, a bowling alley, a championship tennis court housed in a heated, glass-roofed building or, of course, lawn mowing...