Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Packard and William Hewlett, a Stanford classmate ('34), started the electronics company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 with a $600 stake. Their first sale of any consequence was to Walt Disney, who bought nine audio oscillators to help create the sound effect for Fantasia. With Hewlett as the original engineering brains and Packard as a fiercely dynamic manager, the company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare...
Died. George Lewis, 68, jazz clarinetist of early New Orleans vintage who started strutting to funerals with his $4 clarinet when he was 17, played with such jazz lights of the '20s and '30s as Buddy Petit and Kid Howard, later exported the doleful sound of French Quarter blues to Europe and Japan in a series of boisterously successful tours; of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
While the girl was still in the sound-proof booth, Dowling was identified as "the hero of his college newspaper's comic strip." Champi, who threw all the passes for 16 points to tie Yale in the last 42 seconds, was later identified as being also a writer of poetry...
...Earth by a race from outer space known as Globolinks. They speak a kind of pidgin-electronese, and their touch can turn a human into a Globolink within 24 hours. Though the Globolinks are immune to man's weapons, it turns out that they are allergic to the sound of music. After a number of close encounters, they are defeated by a band of schoolchildren singing their school victory march...
Menotti scored most of the 70-minute one-act opera in his familiar, simple melodic style, interspersed with eerie electronic sounds. The composer regards the contrast between traditional musicality and switched-on sound in The Globolinks as a kind of autobiographical parody of his own position in the arts. "Schoffer and Nikolais are the children of this generation," says Menotti. "Theirs is the world of mechanized art; mine is still the world of art as dictated by human emotion." In The Globolinks, he has proved that the twain can sometimes meet...