Word: playbacks
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Barnhouse has spent $28,000 experimenting with the scheme, trying out his recordings on 75 audiences. Under an easy-credit plan, he intends to supply 33-lb. playback machines and hour-long recorded services to hospitals, ships and housing projects, as well as to churches Without regular pastors...
...three times in Philadelphia, once each in New York City, Detroit, Akron, McKeesport, Pa., and Pittsburgh. A good executive, he has built up a staff of 20 full-time workers for his project, plus some part-time help. Last week he was beginning to ship out the first 500 playback machines...
...pseudo-Proust is, all inadvertently, the funniest of Author Calisher's impersonations. In Point of Departure, a double soliloquy conducted by the two members of a love affair, the interminable sentences curl so concentrically and wearily that they come to sound like a playback on a run-down phonograph. The Bowenism is a sight more readable. Letitia, Emeritus, the story of a "backward" girl whose seduction by a prurient old teacher topples a domino-row of calamities, is managed with the firm Bowen wrist and the sure fingering of details. Yet, somehow, though Author Calisher has fingered her characters...
Mikki was what Ellen Vaughn had instead of God. He was a strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...
Without conscious malice, Mikki just about erased the Vaughns. Among Mikki's victims-as Ellen learns in playback sessions-were her stubborn father and brilliant elder brother. She hears the two in vicious argument over how best to exploit the machine's commercial possibilities, then grappling together on the ledge of the family's Manhattan penthouse, at last silent as they topple to their deaths. Casually, the unblinking Mikki goes on to expose the most shattering truth of all: the nice young gent who has been praising Ellen's pretty blue eyes is really trying...