Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...influence state-wide initiataive campaigns when the issue at stake does not materially affect them. (Note that even this powerful law could not and did not prevent soft drink manufacturers from spending money to defeat the bottle bill initiative.) Justice Powell, in writing the majority opinion, stated: "[Free speech] is indispensable to decisionmaking in a democracy, and this is not less true because speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual." The Court argued, rather naively it seems, that "There was no showing that the relative voice of corporations has been overwhelming or even significant in influencing referenda...
Three years ago, Telesensory Systems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., came out with its Speech Plus talking calculator, which sounds out the numbers and the functions that are punched in. Price: $395. Next year Telesensory hopes to produce a computer for the blind that will scan a printed page and turn it into speech...
...secretive about the way Speak & Spell works that competitors are buying the toy just to smash it and recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning...
...when he put together a short, casual talk on the phenomenon of inflammation and what it might represent as a biological process. He delivered it at a symposium held at Upjohn Co.'s Brook Lodge in Michigan. A member of the audience passed a copy of the speech to Dr. Franz Joseph Ingelfinger, then the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger had already roiled the academic waters by warning potential contributors that medical research should be made compatible with good, clear writing. The graceful, straightforward style of Thomas' speech struck the editor as just what...
Listeners who went to the monster concert with purely musical expectations may have found it too much of a not good enough thing. But perhaps they missed the point. The evening, with its interlude of vocal selections and its entr'acte speech by Gottschalk Scholar Robert Offergeld, was intended as a nostalgic entertainment, a good-humored throwback to a more innocent age when the concert hall had to mediate between the salon and the circus. If Gottschalk's significance did not always come through clearly, his flamboyant spirit certainly...