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...that I know," I said. I chinned myself penitently a half a dozen times on the molding over the doorway. When I turned around again, he was asleep, breathing heavily. I covered his face with my pajama top, but Charpentier's Te Deum on the hi-fi, and set off towards the john...
...impulses from each channel by moving both up and down and sideways in a single groove. The two signals from the needle must be played through two separate amplifiers and speakers. Despite the necessary additional equipment, the cost can be far lower than that of a genuine monophonic hi-fi rig, because stereo achieves impressive reproduction with relatively small speakers and low-wattage amplifiers. Hi-fi addicts with component-part rigs can convert to stereo by gradually adding units...
...industry's big push is to warm the severe appearance of much modern furniture by mixing with it oriental lacquered furniture-lighter woods plus new materials and vivid fabrics. The industry is also bringing out a whole new line of "wall-hung" units-bookcases, hi-fi cabinets, cupboards, etc. Even children's furniture is being upgraded after 30 years of standard pink and blue finishes. Big Manhattan, Chicago and Detroit stores are laying in heavy stocks of specially designed children's furniture, scaled down in size from adult pieces...
Riesman also notes the advantage of the private study-bedroom on roommate relationships. The Quincy suite offers both "unity and solidarity." The modern student may be more sensitive to his roommate's feelings, less inclined to insist on an end to the rock 'n' roll session of the hi-fi; he may think Chem 20 less important than friendship. The new House saves him the burden of choosing between them...
...television show (except Omnibus, Ed Murrow or Sid Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit ... to prefer American cars, for any reason, to European; to believe that there may be any justice in the official position on Oppenheimer; to defend Western diplomacy on my basis; to invite company to dinner without candles on the table and without...