Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Future-Fan. That maiden attempt, though not terribly encouraging, was an echo from three decades ago, when Day-Lewis and the rest of the famous Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed...
...very concerned with continuity and somehow he manages to hold the diverse elements of the show together. He talks into and out of each song, plays music during the interviews, and is constantly toying with electronic gadgets: reverberation devices and echo chambers. The result is that, like the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Album, T is able to blend distinctly different moods into a single, unified performance...
...busy corruption of the usurper's court and the relative ease of the forest life provides a curious, imperfect echo of the poles of Shakespeare's own life: the plaguey, seething mart of London and Stratford's Arden Forest. As You Like It may be, in fact, one of the most personal of Shakespeare's plays. An attempt at a definitive production is obliged to meet these issues, to join these diverse elements, and the result may be a definitive failure...
Other members of the staff echo his faith in the selection process, which has remained essentially the same since World War Two. Peterson's concept of how to improve the quality of Harvard classes is not to change the basic process, but to recruit better applicants, particularly in areas where few students feel impelled to apply to Harvard. As more recruiting has been done in the South over the past ten years, the dockets have been adjusted and more Southerners admitted...
...necks of plodding camels deep in the Saudi desert, and from the horns of oxen plowing the furrows of Costa Rica. Radios are replacing the storytelling dervishes in the coffeehouses of Turkey and Iran, and they are standard equipment in the tea stalls of Pakistan. Thailand's klongs echo to transistor music from peddlers' sampans; a visitor to an Ecuadorian minga, in which the Indians come together for communal road building, calculated that at least one tiny transistor radio was sounding its unavoidable message every 20 yards along the two-mile road. Radio has long been the window...