Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats) the House Agriculture Committee's wild, catchall farm bill to expand subsidies by raising price props and tightening production controls on milk, corn and grain, sorghums. Cheered Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "A vote of confidence in ... those who are dedicated to returning American agriculture to a sound basis...
...posed by the child of a friend: "What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?" (Answer: a one-eyed, one-horned, flying people eater.) Wooley composed the song in an hour, hyped the People Eater's voice in currently approved fashion; he achieved the toy saxophone sound of the People Eater's horn by recording a regular saxophone at reduced speed and playing it back at high speed. The record took off immediately...
What the visitors heard last week was music pushed a step beyond the otherworldly compositions of French musique concrète, which utilizes natural sounds taped and glued together in weirdly unnatural order. The resident composers at the Cologne studio tend to abandon natural sound in favor of sounds artificially manufactured on tape. Represented at the demonstration were Hungarian Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, 34, whose Articulation consisted of a series of blips and plops dramatically relieved by an occasional electronic belch, and Composer Gottfried Michael Koenig, 32, whose Essay punctuated its eerie, sustained sonorities with harplike electronic roulades. But the high...
...Saturday afternoon. Place: Culture Room of the People's Owned Iron and Steel Works. On the stage sits the factory's string orchestra, in the audience a couple of hundred "workers' delegates" looking forward to the free drinks. At a barked command comes the sound of marching feet and in tramp flag-bearing comrades (male and female) from the parachute group of the paramilitary "Association for Sports and Technology." The orchestra strikes up a Beethoven minuet, and through the lane of parachutists come the bride and groom...
...firms have often taken notice of international standards only when they were being hurt. The U.S. movie industry fought for and got an international film standard based on U.S. standards (with the sound track on the left edge of the film as it goes through a projector) only after the Germans ate into its foreign markets and threatened to establish German standards with the sound track on the other side. Result: U.S. movie companies can distribute worldwide, get 50% of their income from abroad...