Word: synch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, has put into print a lot of the key phrases we used to describe what's happening in the experience (like: 'go with the flow," "synch," "kairos," and "total attention"). Here is Wolfe describing Kesey on one of the first acid trips in history: "The first thing he knew about it was a squirrel dropped an acorn from a tree outside, only it was tremendously loud and sounded like it was not outside but right in the room with him and not actually a sound, either, but a great suffusing presence, visual, almost...
...Second Synch. The basic element in the system is electronic measurement of the distance between aircraft, each of which must carry an atomic timepiece synchronized to a network of ground-based master clocks. In places where master-clock stations are not feasible, such as remote ocean areas, one plane would take over as the master clock, and all other planes in the sector would synchronize with it. The whole system would operate at dazzling speed: 196 converging aircraft, all of whose clocks were completely unsynchronized, could sort themselves out and synchronize in 30 seconds...
...time please. First, Ivy Films. As to your troubles with the Brattle, with these I condole. As to your technical information, I suggest you check it. My impression from conversations with Richard Leacock and with the immediate past president of your organization is that Drasin did indeed borrow synch-sound equipment first conceived by Leacock...
Leacock's invention permits the photographer to shoot synch-sound with an easily portable system. It allowed Drasin to move into the heart of the riot and capture devastating close-ups and unguarded remarks at the height of the furor. His talent for composition, his sense of humor and his feeling for spontaneous drama all belie his youth and comparative inexperience. Unfortunately, Sunday will play for only two more days, and I have only enough space to recommend it highly and urge you to force the Brattle into extending Sunday's run by the onslaught of your numbers...