Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said farewell, he delivered an autocrat's final warning: "If the Rollins faculty reverts to the lecture and recitation system with their inevitable grades and examinations, all of which tend to make the professor a detective and the student a bluffer, then you may hear the creaking sound as I turn over in my grave...
...President conant further pointed out that this report dealt with judgments as to sound policy and did not attempt to discuss legal and precedural aspects of the appointment and possible dismissal of teachers in schools and colleges...
With money for sound equipment, Ivy threatens to hit the industry with highly professional talkies. Still in the midst of a script writing contest, Charles A. Yoder '49, president of the group, admits that the topic is not yet definite. "But," he asserts, "We've get a lot on the fire...
...best part of the issue is the poetry. The Garrison Prize poems, "England, 1935," by L. E. Sissman, and William Morgan's "Two Hymn Tunes," are sonorous works. Sissman's piece shows the author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived...
Much of the film is a hair-raising chase by night which ends up in a fire-gutted tenement. As the camera stalks hunter & hunted about the shadowy ruins, the suspense is drawn out to a fine edge. An intelligent sound track, all ears, brings it to a razor sharpness. When Bobby is finally cornered on a giant rafter, overhanging the gaping cellar, the rotted wood starts giving way. What follows is a breathless, well-executed collaboration between lens and microphone...