Word: walkmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press corps where they were divided evenly among two rival newspapers, the HMC Post and the HMC Today. The reporters covered committee meetings, attended press conferences, and tried to infiltrate the model National Security Council, because it was the only committee that held closed door meetings. They poked Walkman headphones under the door and dug NSC notes out of waste-baskets. The newspapers were laser printed at Harvard and distributed every morning and evening...
...many of these principals. Albert Holland, who turned Jeremiah E. Burke High in Boston from one of the city's most dangerous schools into what District Superintendent Charles Gibbons calls an "absolute jewel," began with this set of rules: "In class on time; no hats; no Walkman in school; a student roaming the corridors without a pass is written up immediately and given a warning." His neighbor, Principal O'Neill at Lewenberg, set up equally simple standards. "The first order was to maintain control of the hallways, so we put in quiet, single- filing lines. Students go to their lockers...
...labels leaves the U.S. recording industry dominated by overseas owners. (Polygram is controlled by the Dutch, RCA by the West Germans and Capitol by the British.) Yet in a sense, CBS Records is only passing from one revered entrepreneur, Paley, to another, Akio Morita, who is responsible for the Walkman and other breakthroughs. Morita, who favors classical music, seems determined not to mess up the good beat at CBS. His company has offered a package of some $20 million in compensation to persuade CBS Records' bearded, brassy chief, Walter Yetnikoff, 54, to stay in his job for several more years...
Dale pops AC/DC's Back in Black into his walkman, and dons his headphones for the trek to Ohiri Field...
That's when it's time for ritual number two. A James Taylor tape finds its way into Dale's walkman...