Word: phonographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size audiences in the cities and on the campuses. Government grants, foundation funds and universities with chairs for poets-in-residence are all conspiring to strengthen or at least amplify their voices in the world at large. Their poetry books trip ever more briskly off the presses, and their phonograph recordings feed a flourishing market...
...essay on the Iliad: "Its magnitude and depth make it almost as hard to understand as life." So soon, Lowell had put art and life on a parity. At Harvard, he lolled in his room, surrounded by prints of Leonardo and Rembrandt, listening to Beethoven on his phonograph. He wrote poems full of violence and foreboding, black roses, a "plague" that "breathed the decay of centuries." No one then at Harvard was interested, so Lowell took his verses to Robert Frost, who was living near by. Frost read the first page of the Crusades opus. "You have no compression...
...already has more acts going than the Ed Sullivan Show. Beyond its established operations in radio and TV, phonograph records and technological R. & D., it has 1) a quartet of companies that make drums, banjos, electric guitars, violin strings and other musical gear, 2) a pair of small Los Angeles producers of educational films, 3) Creative Playthings, a Princeton, N.J. maker of instructional toys and 4) the New York Yankees, who have been teaching the first baseman's trade to their brawny but brittle superstar, ex-Outfielder Mickey Mantle, in order to preserve his ailing legs-and possibly...
Years ago, when he taught himself his trade by beating out rhythms to accompany phonograph records, he even refrained from watching himself in the mirror as most conductors do. He was worried that he, like so many others, might "become entranced with myself...
...when the earth passes through Saturn's equatorial plane and astronomers can get an edge-on view of the rings, their glow practically disappears. In place of their familiar, disklike shape, the rings appear as a faint, straight line, much like the side view of a phonograph record held flat at eye level...