Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manned landing on Mars by the end of the century. Critics immediately retorted that the Vice President's extraterrestrial ambitions were outrunning the nation's means. Last week the President's task group on post-Apollo space objectives -which Agnew happens to head-made its chairman sound uncharacteristically cautious. It said that the U.S. could send men to Mars in the mid-1980s for not much more than the $24 billion Apollo program...
...make music listeners dissatisfied, is about to unwrap another surprise. After spending twelve years convincing the record-buying public that two ears are better than one, high-fidelity manufacturers have now embarked on a drive to prove that four ears are twice as good-at least. Their excuse: quadrisonic sound, pioneered by Acoustic Research, a leading maker of hi-fi equipment. Audio enthusiasts have been jamming themselves into demonstration rooms in New York's Grand Central Station to hear the astonishingly lifelike effect created by four amplifiers, four loudspeakers and a four-track, four-channel tape recorder...
Four-channel sound, soon to be available only on prerecorded tape (and only from Vanguard Records) has rich though agonizing implications for the record industry. For years, enthusiasts have predicted that tape would replace records, pointing out that it wears longer and is almost impossible to scratch. Its major flaw-tape hiss-has finally been alleviated with the improvement of tape materials. The cartridge and cassette business is booming. Some seers now predict that the wonders of quadrisonic sound will provide a final push for tape against disks...
...pleasurable shape and fed of platter recordings. Besides, record companies have a heavy investment in disk recordings. But to go on gratifying the old record-buying public, manufacturers will probably have to come up with something that does not yet exist -a practical, marketable disk offering four-channel sound of quadrisonic tape. The technical problem-essentially how to squeeze four channels into one groove and then play them off again with high fidelity-has long seemed insoluble. Last week, however, a man came forward who seems to have solved the puzzle. He is not an engineer but a bassoonist named...
...hospital machinery, the getting up and the going to bed, the meals and the TV are as vast and certain and ineffable as the rising of the sun or snow in winter. It's comforting; one is protected against feelings. Sometimes the insulation grows so thick that not even sound or light or touch gets through. It's almost cozy...