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William Shockley is a name that arouses more hatred and anger than any other in academia. The shrewish, white-haired Stanford professor, who was awarded the Nobel physics prize in 1948 for inventing the transistor, has become in recent years the prime symbol of the school of thought which maintains that blacks are genetically inferior to whites...
...clustered around the transistor radio are almost all outsize and beefy, wearing pea jackets and hard hats. One of them sports a silk foulard tucked into the front of his V-necked cardigan. A white Mercedes is parked near by, surrounded by less regal vehicles-Peugeots, Fiats, a few pickups...
...which, just like Jamaican weed, pulls no punches. In Jamaica, you write a song, you get maybe 20 bucks. If it dies, okay; but if it sells a million, too bad. But how the music thrives; it is said that Jamaicans believe nothing that doesn't come through the transistor. That is probably true. In fact, do this: take three nights and: see The Wailers, see The Harder They Come, read an article on Rude Boys in he current Rolling Stone. It's all true, and the music pulls no punches. Paul's Mall, through Sunday...
...sound is virtually continuous; it ranges from rock to revivalist hymns to the background whine of transistor radios to the economical singsong (and sometimes subtitled) Jamaican English of its principal characters. And the sound is uniformly good. Jimmy Cliff's rock is strong and vibrant. The title song is a top 40 hit whose tune may stay with you for a few days, and the church music is professional, loud and compelling. All of it buoys up the film with movement and vigor...
Voice of Love. Particularly in Arab countries, where illiteracy rates run high, radio is heavily relied on as a source of both entertainment and information. Almost every family can afford a cheap transistor, which is able to pick up most of the high-powered stations-including special services of the Voice of America, the BBC, Radio Moscow and Albania's Radio Tirana-as well as local broadcasts. On the night of a speech by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Cairo streets echo with the sound of his harsh voice...