Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article was awright, but in twenny years Televenglish will definitely sound natchral...
...room is a massive vault whose walls, floors and ceilings are built of 6-in. concrete reinforced by steel; its treasures are guarded when the room is empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound the alarm. In this room Schriever arrays his men before a "Master Milestone Chart" which lists the key achievement dates and key target dates in the progress of the ICBM. Eight thousand channels lead from all elements of the program to the master chart, and they reveal clearly, and often...
Counterpoint. To other members of the Cabinet, Secretary Humphrey's repeated rumbles about the need for economy sound less tuneful than they sound to Senator Byrd. Most of them apparently believe that their departmental budgets are tight. Secretary Mitchell defends every dollar in the Labor Department's $418 million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative...
Over an eye-glazing bowl of punch based on a Spanish drink called "Blood" * Beaumont beat out his 20th Century Folk Mass last week for the benefit of his church servers, who clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless...
Toasts & Hubris. The book is crowded with friends who somehow all sound alike. Novelist John (The Wall) Hersey sets the note when he says ("tightly") by way of farewell: "You make me want to write!" and adds in a letter: "My dear, calm friend! . . . You are noble . . . You manage to make a kind of dance of it." Not all will want to follow the last steps of the dreadful dance, when Lael Tucker's second husband (whom she divorced to marry Wertenbaker) visits the dying man and sitting before the fire says: "You are the best . . . Tell me what...