Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNION leaders still talk to their members in depression-born slogans that sound as incongruous in our full-employment economy as a campaign to make "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" the national anthem. In the union lexicon, the term "Big Business" remains shorthand for everything that is evil. Yet the most substantial victories won by unions at the bargaining table have come from the giants of industry. It was the United States Steel Corp. that gave unionism a bloodless foothold in the mass production industries 20 years ago. It was Ford and General Motors that capitulated to the "guaranteed...
Syria (pop. 3,800,000) became the new headline favorite. A flimsy agrarian republic about the size of North Dakota, Syria tries hard to sound like Nasser's most ferocious ally, though in fact it is about the weakest sister of the Arab world. The glory of the caliph's Damascus has been gone for 1,200 years. Modern Syria as a nation dates only from the World War I collapse of Turkey's Ottoman Empire. For almost 25 years the French ruled Syria as mandated territory, leaving behind some culture and much hatred. The young Republic...
Nothing in Jazz Age is more stirringly nostalgic than its sound track. Arranger Robert Russell Bennett has woven together 18 songs, e.g., Dardanella, Chicago, Yes Sir, That's My Baby, in the orchestral style of the period, and orchestrated Hallelujah with the clack of a stock ticker as its motif. The narration of the film, the second in a Project 20 trilogy (first: The Great War; third: The Story of the Thirties), is redolent with the decade's slangy idiom, from "Let's get blotto" to "Nerts." Better yet, not only for its authentic ring...
Three problems plague the attainment of an effective civil defense program for the United States. Lack of inter-state, inter-city, and national coordination, lack of public interest, and lack of a realistic civil defense program are the obstacles in the road to a more sound program for survival in a nuclear conflict. The present civil defense system has proven inadequate because of inefficient cooperation, apathy, and misguided effort. The situation is only worsened by recent proposals of the Federal Civil Defense Administration...
...main progress, Andrew says, will come in sound reproduction. "All the recent emphasis on long-playing records and high fidelity have made people come to expect high-quality reproduction," he says. And FM sound is better sound...