Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Charlie Gibson's snowmen finished a disappointing sixth in the Dartmouth Carnival last weekend. An outstanding performance by slalom specialist Kim Chaffee wasn't enough to overcome the disastrous effects of an incorrect choice of running wax by the cross-country squad...
Everyone has read those words in history books; few know that T.R. spoke them in drumbeat tempo and a high-pitched voice that seem mismatched to the thunderous sentiment. But thanks to Edison, who first recorded the human voice in 1877, T.R.'s words were later etched in wax. Thanks to Michigan State University's new National Voice Library, Americans can now hear his speech, along with 16,000 other voices and sounds going back to the 1880s-everything from Gladstone hailing "the triumph of the phonograph" to Billy
...boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound in sight. After Yale ('22), he spent ten years working for Edison himself, eventually inherited a voxologist's gold mine-Edison's own early wax cylinders...
...time has come," the walrus said, "to speak of many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and why the CRIMSON won't publish tomorrow or next Saturday and only three times a week for the two weeks after that, which, if you can't guess by this time you are really going to be in trouble...
...Brackman's notion of "influence" is a little paranoic. A student's mind is not made of wax; it actively responds and takes and rejects according to need. If there are submerged contents, it is best if they come to the surface. A good teacher does not avoid transference; but, unlike an orthodox psychoanalyst, he at once tries to dissolve it, by noticing it, by the play of reason, by turning it into actual liking or hostility. How else does he think a young person "matures"? One does not "wait for" maturity. Along the same lines, when he speaks...