Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Port Angeles' problem was in some ways more difficult. Its economy was sound, its future secure, but its location on the remote Olympic Peninsula cut it off from the main current of Washington life, and its community life was stagnating. The Bureau's solution: broad-based citizen participation in cultural and sociological programs. Today Port Angeles (pop. 11,850) not only feels itself a part of Washington but of the world. One prime civic project: some 200 of its citizens regularly exchange correspondence, art and books with those of Rosenheim. Germany, and in the last year, high schools...
...minutes are filled with spoken words, a percentage which compares favorably with Mozart's Magic Flute. Putting such works on records required very special abilities, e.g., coaxing people whose first impulse is to mime and pose into playing entirely for the ear, and then creating in sound the invisible stage action and mood...
...music supplied almost all the required atmosphere, from the rowdy, Italianate folk-type songs to the entr'acte hit, Standing on the Corner, to the show's one deeply felt song, Warm All Over. Even so, there was a moment when he feared it was beginning to sound pat as a TV program, so he halted for a playback, to get everything in playing order again. The Lady recording, on the other hand, contains all the songs but little of the dramatic action with which to recreate Bernard Shaw's famed Pygmalion (on which the show...
...Shoemaker. 43, who has held editing jobs on Southern newspapers since 1934. A major reporting problem is to get school officials to speak for attribution; the subject is often just too hot. It is just as hard to get frank views from ordinary citizens in any attempt to sound out public opinion. As desegregation advances, a more novel problem is to get hold of statistics on the school population. In St. Louis and Washington, for example, the number of Negroes in the integrated schools is unobtainable because those cities no longer maintain records with racial identification...
...week's end Albert was reportedly dickering with a New York group either to take over Bellanca or bail him out with cash. He had lost his holdings in Waltham Watch and resigned as chairman of Pierce Governor, which promptly proclaimed that it was in sound condition. Only Albert knew what shape Bellanca was in, but even he was not sure. When an aide was asked what properties Albert still owns, he replied: "I don't know, and I don't think Mr. Albert knows...