Word: playback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volt Autostereo models, priced from $129 up, made and distributed in 14 states by former Used-Car Tycoon Earl "Mad Man" Muntz of Los Angeles. Designed only for playback with special tape cartridges, they take any prerecorded material from the Muntz Music Library. Senator Barry Goldwater bought one from his son Mike, who holds the Phoenix franchise. Comedian Jerry Lewis has cartridge copies made of scripts, learns his lines by Autostereo on the way to work. Sales have reached epidemic proportions, claims a Muntz spokesman. "We started selling to Continentals. Then we went to Cadillacs, Buicks, Fords and Chevrolets...
...rigidity of regular coursework, claiming that it contrasted too strongly with the total freedom of Interim. "In Interim, you have three weeks to work on your own. But before and afterward in class, the exact opposite is true: the lectures are simpleminded and the exams and papers are strictly playback. You aren't asked or expected to think for yourself...
...rape−"tomorrow's nothings," as one boy put it. Slack lured them with cash: 50? to $2 an hour for being "research consultants" in a study of "how guys foul up." "Sick, Man, Sick." The chance to unburden themselves on tape−and then listen to the playback−worked as well as analysis. Usually, says Slack, the boys passed through five stages: apathy, anger, despair, insight, transformation...
...equally happy meeting of food, drink and the classics occurs every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale...
Sound Effect. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Rev. Jackson Burns of St. Paul's Methodist Church, having tape-recorded one of his Sunday sermons, listened to the playback, fell asleep...