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...visitors flocked to one of the largest displays of high-technology protection gear ever assembled. The vast and ear-splitting array was on view at the International Security Conference and Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed off a $199 outdoor surveillance system...
Logically, Sennet's contention that the artificiality of the 18th century streets produced a spontaneity and ease in social interaction is a little hard to accept; historically, this distance between the public and private lives of citizens of the period is even more questionable. Sennett does not write about Boswell, who during these years publicly frequented the salons of London to make connections that would further his private political ambitions. Nor does he make any mention of the widespread 18th century practice of keeping diaries meant for publication, a private penchant performed for public profit...
...TODAY, Sennet writes, "we remain under spell of the Romantic performers' code that art transcends text, but we lack their passion, and a certain innocence with which they took themselves so seriously." Writing The Fall of Public Man, Sennett must have hoped that some of that innocence would return. But his fresh perceptions on fashion and theater are overwhelmed by the inconsistencies of his argument. And Sennett is left a dandy in the most embarrassing position of having nothing...
Stay Small. Growth alone has never interested Gilfillan's mild, sprightly President Sennet Gilfillan, 58 (his ailing brother, Jay, 54, co-owner, is inactive). Says Gilfillan: "If you stay small, you can do a better job. We concentrate on G.C.A. because we like it. We get a kick...
Plan Big. Sennet Gilfillan thinks so much of G.C.A.'s future that he has scrapped $3,000,000 in television work to concentrate on G.C.A. He believes its greatest use will come in relieving traffic congestion at overcrowded airports and eliminating "stacking." Said he: "Ten million dollars worth of units at 50 major U.S. airports could save the airlines $40 million a year [twice what they lost in 1947] in gas bills and revenue lost in canceled flights...