Word: soundproofed
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Locked in a soundproof study, the staff men responsible for departmental administration lack sufficient insight into student problems. The brilliance employed in publishing a treatise invoking worldwide comment is not applied to helping the undergraduate struggling with Calenlus. Obviously divergent interests create a need for balance not achieved by mathematical formulae. The Department must show more willingness to cope with student problem and devote more energy to improving the quality of its teaching if it intends to satisfy its befuddled charges...
Rozsa writes his sound-track scores in a soundproof room at home with a cue sheet of the film script, a stopwatch, and his boxer dog Mowgli beside him. Usually by the time the studios get the script to him, he has only about six weeks to do the entire score. Much of his work sounds like a cut-&-paste job on themes and orchestral effects out of Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich. Some of his scores (for which he gets $15,000 to $20,000 apiece) have scarcely an original theme in them, are made up largely of a succession...
Julian West, 30, was intense, nervous, troubled with insomnia. In the old West mansion in Boston, he built a soundproof subterranean sleeping chamber, hired a mesmerist to put him to sleep. On the night of May 30, 1887 he was particularly upset. Strikes in the building trades had stopped work on his new house, delaying his marriage to lovely Edith Bartlett. At 9 p.m. Julian went to his quiet room and was put into a trance calculated to last until 9 the next morning...
...Women can endure noise as well as men. One woman at Lockheed is happy running a speed hammer, though speed hammers are so noisy that they "have to be enclosed in a soundproof room to pre vent their disturbing the drop-hammer operators...
...Street (where at one time or another he was economic adviser to the American Bankers Association, Investment Bankers Association, Stone, Webster & Blodget, and other high-powered financial outfits). But as he hurried through downtown Manhattan's chasmlike streets and talked financial organization and investments in bankers' streamlined, soundproof offices, Mr. Edwards sometimes felt an overwhelming need for a few minutes of complete withdrawal from the world. He took to dropping in at downtown churches. For Mr. Edwards, who in an age of religious myopia can see beyond his own nose, saw that the world in general, and Christendom...