Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Craftsman. In a matter of months he put together the slickest production company on Broadway. On Merrick's permanent staff today there are only two executives (General Manager Jack Schlissel, Production Manager Samuel "Biff" Liff), four assistants, five theatrical technicians. But Merrick has tuned this team to an excited pitch of efficiency that no other production office can approach...
...Oberlin girl will probably come because she has seen Harvard's recruitment folder, entitled "Harvard Offers More." It reaches over 500 U.S. colleges a year and makes a powerful pitch...
After presenting information theory in a way that should attract none but the credulous ("intuitively"), he rehashes and relabels the audiology of Stevens and Davis, date 1938. Psychophysics has advanced since then. The translator has inserted one wistful reference to the sone and mel scales of loudness and pitch, but that is no substitute for the complete reworking need. In the entire discussion of the sonic message, the "information theory" so painfully presented before plays no practical role...
...rest of the book he refers to the great redundancy of the musical score in comparison with the slight redundancy, perhaps 20 percent, of musical performances. He should have rigged his example to support his later (equally unfounded) conclusions. There is a continuing confusion between physical frequency and pitch. Why he numbered some of his figures and not others is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. His index would be laughably inadequate if it were not so unlikely that anyone would ever want...
...racing away from earth, Schmidt realized, the wave length of its light would be lengthened - just as the wave length of sound from a train's whistle lengthens (thereby dropping in pitch) as it speeds away from a listener at the railroad station. Such an effect on light is known to astronomers as a "red shift" because it moves the characteristic lines of spectral light toward the red, longer wave length end of the spectrum...