Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today's concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to project his sound above a thundering orchestra and out to the most distant seats. And even if he does, many stereo hi-fi addicts contend that the sound is only a pale echo of the "electronically enhanced" concertos that they can conjure up in their living rooms...
...mile lift. After the first few minutes of our ride, he exploded into an excited monologue. With only a few pauses, it lasted for the whole 20-mile drive down the narrow, two-lane, cotton-haul highway between Olive Branch and Holly Springs, Miss. The man wasn't a stereo-typed redneck at all. Obviously a business man, he wore a conservative suit and was driving a small Rambler. His Southern accent was barely perceptible...
There is undoubtedly too much buying for show, status and the sheer pleasure of expensive gadgetry. Perhaps the audio addict spent ridiculous amounts of money on massive monaural hi-fi rigs. But he later switched to stereo and small speakers not out of mere faddism but because they were better. Basically, the American wants what is best, not what will last forever. What upwardly mobile American really wants a car that will last 30 years, as he watches newer models go by, with power steering and brakes, pushbutton windows, et al. Or the refrigerator without automatic defrosting? The stove without...
...characters out of the cage the intensity is diffused. He has to manipulate his philosophical stances, and as a dramatist Sartre is pretty amateur. He gives us a trio of Vichy officers who are the Enemy and not much more. Ken Tigar and James Woods play two thankless stereo-types, and Dan Chumley plays an officer who has no dramatic or thematic meaning at all. Babe is uncertain what to do with them. They end up serving as comic relief, buttoning their vests to look presentable when a prisoner comes in to be tortured, or else being so evil...
...spend they do, on everything from FM stereo sets (52% of the families own one or more) to theater tickets (71% attend) to home power tools (58%). The average family avidly collects records (77%) and travels extensively (nine out of ten families took trips in 1965, 27% of them outside the country). Mr. Subscriber and his family enjoy all kinds of outdoor activity: three out of four swim, four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks...