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...Call early this fall, and it's been on the record player pretty much ever since, though I've never tried to figure out why until now. I haven't always been so neglectful: a couple of years ago when Merle Haggard and John Prine began to wrest the stereo from Dylan and The Dead, it was clearly something to deal with, a question of sanity. But Betts seems like a more innocent orientation. The lead guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band comes out with a solo album, it starts spinning in my room--so what? The guy never cared...
...intervening years, with the shrinkage of the dollars in my pockets, I've been forced to retrench on even these essential commodities. I've learned to be content with the monthly or so addition to my stereo collection, and the last airplane I took was a year ago Thanksgiving. I've cut back on books. My once voluntary, compulsive identification with the world's needy has become compulsory. My asceticism is now nothing more romantic than a mundane tightening of the belt...
...three students reported in October that they had been robbed at gunpoint of $100 by two men who had entered their room asking to borrow matches. Eight days later, their room was broken into and a stereo valued at $1700 was stolen...
...easy to convince yourself that the niceties you depend on should fade away so irrevocably. I enjoy listening to Beethoven on my stereo. I like to eat hot corned beef sandwiches. And there is nothing nicer than the feel of a shiny, newly-purchased copy of Keats. And yet the new austerity could produce some benefits, not so obvious at first, but no less long-ranging in their impact. Romantic asceticism would no longer be a viable philosophical alternative, and middle-class youths like myself would no longer feel compelled to renounce their roots. Americans would be a thinner, trimmer...
...tiny electronic components-transistors, capacitors, resistors, etc.-on a single flat surface called a "chip." Linked together in so-called integrated circuits, enough of these microscopic components can be included on a chip no larger than a postage stamp, and perform all the electronic functions of. say, a stereo amplifier, a hearing aid or even a pocket calculator. In the Westinghouse TV system, the chip is relatively large-a 6-in. by 6-in. surface that forms the TV screen. The chip contains some 36,000 electronic components-"probably the world's largest integrated circuit," says Physicist T. Peter...