Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catch: present phonographs would need a new attachment to play records at the new speed as well as the old. Philco and Columbia were both ready to provide it-for $29.95. In case the idea doesn't catch on, Columbia will still turn out standard records...
...asides and soliloquies, Olivier gives them on the sound track but plays them as mental monologue. His lips move with the words only when he would think aloud. This device is worked even more deftly in Hamlet than in Henry V, and has already become as standard in movies as the closeup. Shakespeare's descriptive and narrative speeches are pictured on the screen, and by this device, Olivier sometimes even manages to enhance the language. Ophelia's description of Hamlet's "madness" (As I was sewing in my closet) gives the two of them a lovely passage...
...Quakers established women as the spiritual equals of men. The Puritan conception of companionship and "tender respectiveness" set a new standard for Christian marriage. Wrote William Penn to his wife, as he was about to depart for Pennsylvania: "My dear wife, remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life; the most beloved, as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts . . . God knows, and thou knowest it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making...
Another important Antitrust case went the other way last week. The case involved "exclusive dealer contracts" between Standard Oil Co. of California and some 7,000 independent gas stations, binding the dealers to sell only products made or sponsored by the oil company...
Died. Dr. Otto Marburg, 74, exiled Viennese neurologist, longtime good friend of the late great Sigmund Freud; of cancer; in Manhattan. Author of several standard texts on the nervous system, Dr. Marburg had been head of the University of Vienna's Neurological Institute for 19 years when he came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1938, joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology...