Word: organism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend began three years ago when Boston's KLH, long a big name in hi-fi speakers, put out a $200 portable unit. It could not reach down to pick up the very lowest notes on the organ, but it did reach a market of music lovers who were willing to forgo a few notes to save hundreds of dollars and considerable bother...
...scene shifts to a tangle of barbed wire, the detritus of trench warfare, the corpses of trees and, half-buried in the churned and muddy ground, the corpses of men. One of them slowly comes alive-he is a soldier lying, now, on his bunk, playing a mouth organ...
...chunga-chunga-thump. There stood Gary Lewis before the TV cameras, slapping his thighs giddap fashion as he Jet loose with a whine that reverberated-ated-ated like a struck gong Then the three Playboys chimed in with a shivering "Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa" Enter a rampaging electric organ, a cascade of tambourines, an explosion of drums ... But wait. Where was all this sound coming from? And Singer Lewis-his lips seemed out of focus...
Sunday church is an all-family affair. On one recent Sunday at Sullivan's Methodist Church, the ushers were Charlie, Sons Charles, John and Son-in-Law Roger Roney; Daughter-in-Law Mary played the organ. Until recently, Mabel was the church's membership secretary, and Daughter Janet often sings in the choir. Shuman teaches Sunday school after the service, as he has for 25 years...
...domestic, the conventional evidence is damning enough. There's fascinating account of the New Republic's vascillating attitude toward World War One, presenting the dilemma of a magazine that simply couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a liberal government's House-organ or a conservative administration's shrill and ineffectual opponent. There's a fine chapter on Colonel House himself, the intellectual pimp of Wilsonian progressivism, and his relations with the journalist Lincoln Colcord. Lincoin Steffens is taken to pieces for walking into his "scientific" study of corruption with pretty clear notions of what he was going...