Word: splicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the Houses, the editors have consciously tried to give more substantial profiles of Faculty members than in volumes past. Traditionally, the writing about the Harvard Faculty in undergraduate publications has taken three forms: dust-cover summaries which regurgitate schools attended, books published, and hobbies; interview transcripts which splice together quotes with transitional comments; and critical essays in which the writer combines biographical and interview material with some knowledge of the man's field to establish a point of view outside the man himself...
Believing that an occasional sprained ankle is preferable to conducting private affairs in the hall, Cliffies learned to splice wires, and the problem was solved--until...
...whole: it so furiously resents the race prejudice of the whites that it unconsciously adopts the race prejudice of the Negroes. In The Cool World, all Negroes are innocent, even when they are guilty; all whites are wrong, especially when they are right. Furthermore, the moviemakers too often splice sociology with sensation, documentary with melodrama. And finally, the cinematography is inexcusably sloppy-U.S. audiences, wise in the ways of the hand-held camera, are no longer likely to confuse the absence of art with the presence of truth. Still and all, The Cool World has an impact...
...Crucible, a contemporary opera based (tenuously) on the play by Arthur Miller, keeps reminding you how good it is all evening long, and necessarily so: without reminders, one would forget very quickly. The music, by Robert Ward, is a nightmarish splice of bad Richard Strauss and the sound track from the scenic sections of a True Life Adventure Film. The product of too much emotion music form Grade B movies, Ward's chords smother in their instumescence. When Ward does shear off the blathering orchestral fat, the musical thought that remains strikes out as absolutely insipid. Three hours of such...
...salute. Cannon roared at Windsor and Cardiff castles, and as far away as Gibraltar and Accra. Over Buckingham Palace the Queen's huge ceremonial standard was unfurled, and to all ships and shore stations the Admiralty sent a signal: "Birth of a son to H.M. Queen Elizabeth announced. Splice the main brace." As messages poured in from governments all over the world, 81-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield worked over a bit of verse that began: "O child descended from a line of kings...