Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a better sense of 18th century style, and instinctively reject the romantic excesses of the past. The advent of the LP has created a vast new audience for Bach, as it has for other composers; but Bach is a special beneficiary because his many intimate, complex compositions generally sound better in the home than in a large concert hall. In 1949, there were 15 Bach albums on the market; today there are more than 500-including 24 rival versions of the complete Brandenburg Concertos, and 12 interpretations of the B-Minor Mass. Says Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, founder...
...theologians in the service of the church, regained by the Second Vatican Council, must not again be jeopardized." The signers added that doctrinal errors today cannot be rooted out by force but only by debate and dialogue. "Any form of Inquisition, however subtle, not only harms the development of sound theology; it also causes irreparable damage to the credibility of the church...
Most of the images have less darkling origins. The Sea of Holes ("Or is it the Holy See?" quips John Lennon) was originally intended to go with the Beatle song, Fixing a Hole, which was later dropped from the sound track. It obviously reflects a conscious or subconscious memory of episodes in the movie 2001. The cotton-tailed, clown-faced Nowhere Man is a satire on intellectuals ("So little time, so much to know...
Into his life wheels an automobile that the family dubs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because of the way it chug-chugs and a beautiful lady named Truly Scrumptious because of the way she mug-mugs. Cute romance is in the air, cute songs flood the sound track, and the children, pining for Truly (Sally Ann Howes), utter the unkindest cute of all: "If he kisses her, then they'll hafta get married...
...viewer tunes in at night to station WHCT, the image on the screen looks like a shattered mirror, and the audio twitters like a rewinding tape recorder. Subscribers interested in the show dial a code number on an un scrambling device perched atop their set. Automatically, the picture and sound come in clear and loud, and a tape inside the decoding box totes up a charge of 50? to $1.50 a show. Every month, the tape is pulled out of the box as a statement. There is also a service charge of $3.25 a month...