Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academic writers' workshop. The device of alternating the voices of the two narrators is schematic and of limited tonal interest. Plot is subordinated to episodic tours de force. In small doses, the graphic descriptions are impressive, but they can also be so relentless as to make the author sound like the thinking reader's Jean Auel...
...sound of American slavery is living very quietly on a dark side street in Brunswick, Ga. And a young black composer named Walter Robinson has come a thousand miles to hear it: tones, overtones, agony and all. Call it gospel, or call it the blues. The sound starts low and shades into the sky, leaving behind an ache or sprig of consolation. "That's the sound I want," he says, as he drives toward his destination...
Walter has a tape he wants Doug to hear, so they head for the family room and pop a cassette into the machine. "Right here -- what's that? What's he saying?" asks the younger man as the tape begins. Doug angles his upper body toward the sound. A black preacher is crying out his sermon, his voice cracking with emotion through line after line, at times shifting to an eerie falsetto high above the drone of his congregation. It's part Motown, part a century or two of brutal noonday toil, and it will raise the hairs...
...legal nicety. But Bush's aides believe they have struck a vein of patriotic gold with the issue. "It's a winner for us," says Chief of Staff Craig Fuller. "If Dukakis wants to debate the Pledge of Allegiance with us, we're happy to oblige." In the sound-bite brouhahas of a presidential campaign, the dispute over definitions of patriotism has hardly been edifying, and hardly the stuff of a significant national dialogue...
...would think a lot of people would pause before throwing out those charges they throw out in the form of questions. If you think it's fair to pass along or circulate rumors that prove to have no basis in fact, then I'm not sure that's sound, insightful journalism...