Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Museum of Modern Art is bankrolling an incongruous enterprise. As part of the museum's current exhibit on "Information," a poet named John Giorno contributed a sort of Dial-a-Radical service. By telephoning (212) 956-7032, the public can hear one of more than 600 predominantly revolutionary, tape-recorded messages...
Some black teachers have also been harassed by those white students who seem determined not to adjust to the new situation. Parents in Mississippi's Washington County have sent their children into class with portable tape recorders to gather evidence against black teachers they consider incompetent. White students in Greer, a suburb of Greenville, S.C., openly mimic the accent of a black English teacher...
...certainly did. In an hour, the statement was finished. He nodded with satisfaction, then added, "But you must sign it." Then another surprise: "We would like to tape-record your voice so all the people of Kampuchea can hear...
...current Russian practice of samizdat (self-publishing) is well-known in the West. By samizdat, Russians endlessly retype and clandestinely circulate the work of such banned Russian writers as Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With the increasing availability of tape recorders, another practice, called magnitizdat (publishing by tape recorder), is becoming even more popular than samizdat. Through magnitizdat, artists record songs that are not acceptable for official release. The tapes are then passed from hand to hand with lightning rapidity as each person makes copies for his friends...
...against Israel and by Soviet propaganda for the Arab cause. For example, the official radio broadcasts the song of a Soviet soldier who begs, "Oh, mother write me a letter to Egypt; we're going to be here for a while." But far different sentiments are circulating on tape. "Should I become a thief, a bandit, or maybe better, an anti-Semite?" asks a boy in one satiric song. "I know for a fact the Jews stole all last year's wheat harvest from the people," he says, repeating a characteristic fantasy of Soviet anti-Semites. Echoed...