Word: phonographical
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Honkisz said the thief was "really selective and seemed to have a hell of a lot of time." In addition, Honkisz said, the thief eveidently sampled a box of candy and paused to listen to several phonograph records...
...pinning high hopes on a massive "Watch Now, Pay Later" campaign to be launched in mid-August. Customers will be offered the whole range of models, from the $329.95 set to a $1,600 combination radio-phonograph-TV console, with first payment due 90 days after purchase. Virtually all the other makers are expected to fall into line. Says an RCA executive confidently: "I don't think the public has soured on color...
...desire to believe in the existence of UFOs has made millions of Americans susceptible to UFO hoaxes: photographs contrived by darkroom manipulation or by simply tossing saucepans, phonograph records or hubcaps in front of cameras. Many people accepted as evidence a photograph of a weird little creature that had supposedly emerged from his saucer and died. A few recognized it for what it was: a shaved monkey...
...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...