Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sonar for Boredom. Dr. Colin Cherry, 48, professor of telecommunication at London's Imperial College of Science and Technology, and Psychologist Neville Moray of Sheffield University got interested in the cocktail-party problem through their studies on the directional nature of human hearing. They kept their eyes and ears open at cocktail parties, but did their actual sound research in the laboratory-the cocktail parties were too noisy. They discovered that the seasoned partygoer does not face the person he is listening to, but turns only one ear toward him, while using the other ear as if it were...
...death, is veiled in a ghostly winding sheet of luminous Jamesian language. Nothing is clear; anything is possible; evil like a serpent glides unseen beneath each gliding sentence. In the film, necessarily, the spectral prose is replaced by spooky images and scary noises. Some of them are eerily effective: Sheffield Park, the gorgeously rotting old Georgian mansion in which the film was mostly made, is a demon's dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main...
...Lord Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, Baron Eddisbury of Winnington and a Baronet, served in a trawler, an ex-U.S. destroyer, a gunboat, during World War II, never in a corvette. For a comparison of corvettes, see cuts...
...already ripping up the tracks when Britain's antique-railroad buffs founded the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and asked to buy the surviving 4½ miles of trackage. To discourage them, the ministry named a stiff price: $90,000. In consolation, it offered to rent them the old Sheffield Park booking office for 5 shillings (70? ) a week...
Last week more than 2,000 Britons descended on Sheffield Park Station, many of the men in batwing collars and the women in high-button shoes and Victorian bonnets. To the strains of When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam', the Bluebell-consisting for the present of two freshly painted wooden coaches between a brace of antique steam engines -chuffed down the track at a sedate 25 m.p.h. Minutes later, reaching the end of the line, the volunteer engineer and fireman hopped out, hurried around to the rear engine, fired it up and brought the train, all whistles...