Lewiston Evening Journal - Dec 29, 1947 Brov him—or Ttaly might Hot have gone to war on the side of Germany, nor wound up in the condition it now -s. Emannele’s fate may well be studied by those who would ‘‘give in’ for the sake of harmony, As in all the appeasements of Enrone. disaster is inevitablo, Earthquake in Maine A “severe” earthquake is reported as shaking Dover-Foxcroft yesterday, None wag injured and no damago has beon discovered. Earthquakes in Maine are rare—but with primary da} coinciding with New Year's Day, one ¢jn’t be sure of what may be boiling up beneath the surface, he wa! languago” has many meanings, One that we like is “Any means, vocal ur other, of expressing or communicating feoling or thought.” Der, Grant Fairbanks, professor of spocch at the University of Southern Cali- fornia, and vico president of the Amorican Speech Correction Association, said today nt Salt Lake City when the spcech assovia- ton vpenvd a 3-day conference that; “We don't object so much any more to Amaricun colloquialism, idiom and slang. {te part of tho living Atneriean language id it 5 here to stay. * You ean't stop a high sehool young tor Crom susing *yeah’” he said, “You wan't stop him from saying ‘heck!’ or ‘izautwo’— It isn't realism to go to com- muutties like Brooklyn, Chicago and Los Angelos und tey to enforce a: strict stand. acd ©? wtivalation on school children, “What we're trying to impress onThe Telegraph - Feb 2, 1948 Browse this newspaper» Browse all newspapers | On the other Nand, nNowever, 1 rop arant pring! home that beautiful green folding stuff — as) | sometimes he doesn’t after a poker game — there'd be a lot of arguments. Wimmin sure are hard to please, — Exchange. WHOLESOME THING “On the whole," says Dr Grant Fairbanks, pro- fessor of spcech at the University of Southern California, “the more general acceptance of slang, and the present broadening of the aca- demic viewpoint toward its truly functional use, is a wholesome thing; (il Is) an attempt on the part of language to keep up with the change of things with which it has to deal, as an Interpre- tative or communicative medium,” That's OK with us, brother, — Exchange.The Free Lance-Star - Jan 1, 1948 Browset Slang Defended > By Educator a SALT CITY, Jan. L (P}— Don't shuddesf parents, when your youngsters give out with expres- sions like “Doozy,” “Hey, butch, let's cut a rug” or othe? utterances rich in adolescent :nthusiasm.| Junior is helpin{i to develop the American language, said Dr. Grant Fairbanks, professor of speech at the University of Southern Cali- fornia, and vice president of the American Speech Correction As- sociation, today.— - “We, don't object so much any more to American colloquialism, idiom iand slag.” said Fairbanks in an interview after his arrival here for the three-day convention of the Speech Association of America. “It's part of the living American lang- uage and it's here to stay.” , “You -can't stop a high school youngster from saying ‘Yeah’,” he said. “You can't stop him from say- ing ‘Heck!’ or .‘Izzatso’. It isn’t Tealism to go to communities like Brooklyn, Chicago and Los Angeles -and try to enforck 2 strict standard , of articulation on school children.PAGE 14 SALT LAKE\CITY, Dec. 29 (F\— Don't shudder, parents, when your youngsters give out with expres- gions hke “doozy,” “hey, Butch, Jets cut a rug” or other utterances Mich in adolescent enthusiasm. . Jumor may bring horror to par- ents’ ears, but he 1s helping to de- Yelop the American language, said Dr Grant Fairbanks, professor of speech at the University of South- bE oA why you should for extra cash. Tm a “Yes” Man-easy to get along with! Bill Miller, Personal Finance Co., 323 Huron Toledo Blade - Dec 26,1947 Browse this newspaper » Murdering The Language O.K. With This Teacher Jism to go to communities lke Browse all newspapers » ern California, and vice president of the American Speech Correction || Associanion, today. “We don’t object so much any more to American colloquialism, idiom and slang,” said Dr. Fair- banks in an interview after his ar- rival here for the three-day con- vention of the Speech Association |) of America. “It's part of the living, American language and it's here to, Stay” “You can’t stop a high school, youngster from saying “yeah’,” he) said. “You can't stop him from say- ing ‘Heck!’ or ‘izzatso.’ It isn't real- Brooklyn, Chicago and Los Angeles! try to enforce a strict standard of; articulation on school children.The Milwaukee Journal - Jan 9, 1948 Browse this ne oc Is a Doozy; He Says Junior’s Jive Talk’s Okay! Salt Lake City, Utah - () -Don’t|. shudder, parents, when your young-] i sters give out \ith expressions like | | “doozy,” “Hey, Butch, let’s cut a rug” or other utterances rich in}. adolescent enthusiasm. Junior may bring horror to par- ents’ ears, but he is helping to de- velop the American language, said Dr. Grant Fairbanks, professor of speech at the University of South- ern California and vice-president of the American Speech Correction as- sociation. “We don’t object so much any more to American colloquialism, idiom and slang,” said Fairbanks, here for a convention of the Speech], Association of America. “It's part i rican Janguage andLewiston Evening Journal - Dec 29, 1947CoC No eBook available ‘AbeBooks: ‘Amazon. Find in a library All sellers » a en\fo OReviews Write review ‘Summary of Working Group Activity from 1952 to 1968 By National Research Councl US.) Committee Hearing, Bloacoustis, and Biomechanics hin this bo Go About this book oo ooLIg ‘at Tavthanike an Gonna BI Working Group 17 ~ A itch Analyzer Propos Status: Discharged. Requested by: Dr. H. A. Imus, by letter of 18 August 1954. Purpose: CHABA was requested to evaluate a research proposal entitled "A Voice Pitch Analyzer" which had been submitted to the Office of Naval Research by Professor Gordon E. Peterson. Membership: C.M. Marris, Chairman J. C. Ry G. Fatrbanks jek Ider Activities: The requested evaluation was made by mall. Report: A report of the evaluation was submitted to the CHABA Counc! on 24 October 1954. Major Conclusions: Additional research employing pitch extraction devices could pro- vide valuable Information relating to the basic nature of speech. Certain aspects of the proposal need clarification. Or. Peterson should be asked to resubmit the proposal after modification In accordance with certaln suggestions made by the Working Groupcommercials "more interesting” and averaged a 66 percent greater recall when played 30 percent faster. ‘Other researchers had discovered that when lectures were played at twice their original “talking speed” (282 instead of 141 ‘words per minute), audience comprehension dropped only 10 percent — considered a small sacrifice for increased eff Already convinced that “time flies when re having fun,” researchers also con- Hirmed the opposite: Allowed to adjust voice variable controls of recordings themselves, most experiment subjects found listening more icone at 25 percent faster than norma MacLachlan’ earllet attempts to shoe- horn TV footage into a smalier fit seemed ‘equally promising. Students watching vi- deotaped commercials that had been com- essed by about 20 percent remembered and names that had been advertised 36 percent more often than those watching the lunaltered ads — without noticing the speed- up, But of several benefits promised by TV time-compressing (increased attention, re- tention) only one as materialized with the Stuf trom lab experiment to te flickering sereen in millions of homes Efficiency. Al most 20 ‘of the ads on network tele vision today are compressed, says MacLachlan, now a professor of ‘management at Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute in Troy. The purpose of ad compress Best Sellers Fiction 1 “Patriot Games.” Tom Clancy 3 [Frosumed inscet.” Boat Teron q ." Stephen King reall James A Michener __ ‘The nation that has fade an art of efficien- ‘ey has already seen the emergence of the seven-second TV commereial. Adverusers have also cranked up the ac tion on many ads. “Rapid cuts, rapid editing, swith dozens of scenes in a single commer- cual.” says Robbins of a popular ad style. as seen in recent Burger King Burger Bundies ‘commercials, that has been influenced the music-video production. “They were al extremely fast and some are filmed in high speed,” says Robbins. “We believe very strongly that consumers. have beemene adjusted to the essential barrage of ma ihey arc exposed to every day that they are actually able to absorb more information in 2 short period of time than, say, 20 years ago.” x ok + But Jeremy Rifkin believes can wind the human ¢lock only so tightly before springs are ‘The author of “Time Wars” (J Hout $1895) claims America’s tumeprece fel to. “faster is better” ethos. He laments tape recorder industry estimates that “about a million people now ‘speed listen’ and nuiltons more will.” Television's acce- erated pace, he charges, is ike a ume bomb ‘amid natural rhythms ~ the ones that en- able a child to lose track of ume while reading a story ora 9's mind to slow~ the action of a line-drive and make the play. He emphatically tates that our artical ‘ume has alfected quality of inte 200 ul ultimately threatens survival “Throughout most of history the social tume was: compatible with the physical and ecolo- eal rhythms,” says Rafkin, president of the C.-based Foundation on Economic Trends. “Speed was not much of an issue unt! about 100 years ago You were always constrained to natural speed, the speed of animals and the speed the wind could give you.” television and the compiier with stealing the attention span of our children and un- dermining their ability to reflect and roject. He blames ecological problems irom acid rain to the greenhouse effect to extinction of species on our outpacing the pulse of the planet * * * While Landes agrees that “a lot of our technology 1s operaung on much shorter tume tolerances” and “those time con- straints cé juite stressful,” he doesnt. see a nan revolution as threatening society. “The introduction of artficial ume- keeping already took us away from nature and ‘a rhythm that isn’t that of the sun ando forth. he ays. "The introduction temporal punctuation marks — when you go to work, when not to, and with that the concern with productivity and efficiency — has created stresses on everybody ... But 1 don't think the nanosecond thing is revolu- onary an that regard.” ‘The “saving tendency," Landes argues. is not to push jon to an extreme. He mentions that we are capable of measuring the winning time of a swit ‘competi= {ton far beyond the hundredth of a second — but consensus says we don t. “There 1s a small element of tolerance that is indispensable and will not disap- peat” he says. “Were dealing with human ings and not machines ... I can think of science fiction scenarios in which a society is riven to the thousands of a second — wut I don't think it's going to happen. Rifkin believes it will. but not without a struggle. “The next few years will become a temporal battleground.” he says. “You know the old saying ‘haste makes wast ies is to see a critical look at efficien- speed. We're going to start to see a few hereay take hold: And its going to say that slower 1s beautiful, slower is hu- mane.”The Milwaukee Journal - Mar 10, 1953 Browse this newspaper» Browse all newspapers. Device Squeezes boards away and then shoving the rest together, 75 Minute Radio Prof. Grant Fairbanks, director of the University of Iinois speech Address I nto 60 research laboratory, demonstrated . the device Monday, Urbana, Ill. - (4) - Science has] ye said it would enable radio to| come up with a gimmick that will|tailor programs to fit time. He, Permit politiciens to squeeze one Scand} ee eee of joar | canno’ ete! y human ear and one-quarter hours of talk into Coinventars of the device arr an hour. . Dean W. L, Everitt of the college The tape recording device,|of engineering and R. P. Jaeger, called a “time compressor,” would | formerly at Hlinois, do away with the practice of cut- ting speakers off the radio when they run overtime. The machine speeds up words or music by chopping the sound into little strips—like boards in a fence — throwing some of the ——SSSSS=— 4‘OA, OcTONER 2197 1 Ri —SOHeNECTADY CALTIESUPLVENT Experts Warn— Artificial Manipulation of Time May Have Consequences By DOW OLDENBURG ‘cel tans yu pre wo hns he nang Webel mg foy Ls ead wey andy iin sy tal cme te at Mashlaton Pot Psiestltmadens Foncleewens Belraticmtper ora taneine ere mohmiondtar ad campus ete tetweme tane Iie fore {Eomen stds tmeerd Onettareates. 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TV viewers have te n> Srigmileverbws lene blre Te session se commer ae ast pla rte Manger" made bests Hts reap Rane theyre fe McDooalts mate fastfood tne com fie tei Teed arg (roceeria mowents af emergrocy it {hea he pete = tn 91038 Sect aye ng ee ce at Peet feat sae Rabe tnt ea tion au when de wen fre (038 Sond he mate" A report rene comgrerorox bye wae Toone nd aneangn Se aay Ma. rie tab Eidetlan experimented wih patting the Earimeres {he atesbon span ef ovr cure abd mg ten ay tect and f Shes ecslogical problems Fro Sof ee pre fc con ot Spec acne ‘Wile Landed agree tlt “a of ou rane fi ox puomncn tht wee Sraseele tats ter feu ase “vee Gere the mtrsi riba itr bgt Bizarre Bones in Illinois. “Time Flies? \ocerog ma bn Bats ac tia af coumcunnesece Looks at Aging leet et th in Stout fant a fee rire tbaek when Gay feb 0 Oay Datedy, incioe aster reerewdan of demew: tthe best-seller “Fatherhood.” Bull Seales See esl Coy emcee ol bana of he yma fs bud ea nannecon! revolution a estenng| ety “Toe imrodacuono rufa! ue oot ws away Irom nature hn as at fe rote besa “The tesacuae ‘Temporal peectsten aris weeStar-News - Apr 4, 1953 Browse this newspape NN |—University of Mlinois scientists|a person talking fnst, or a specieu- re announced the invention of] up record. me compressor” which ean} People who try to talk fast_are|'t Shop ine Minute Waltz down to 45; generally hard to understand Pair ayseconds and keep politician from banks said, beeause they slur oe a “Ttatkung tea long. trp aver their words, Speeded-up r Fuirbanks, one] recnrds change a voice's piteh andy id the machio} make st hard lo entch the words rlenn speed up words or ‘le With, ‘The “compressor.” however, re , "Yout any change in tone or under-leont speech im condensed form Mi landing. Sometimes, le sai" ythus escaping the slurs, and dors f}things even sound better wh¢ jnot change the pitch. raced through the device. ° ‘vara’ “anmetrng of Russ MIG Look-See : €l«comprestor™ before the local i ieee cee An American Exploit ° * lwords or music inio *Jeards some of the paris, and pulls! tithe rest close logether. Is the samo NE Bre « sfalzn mas painted on 8 fence, Be rsnastic fight of Sea ten | ee a leet Tee Se acmctil l The, ak and dager, pote, ‘pabunke said PT lermest ‘yssistanee. brought into} ti Rh ‘And TV Aided Ahed hands the first undamaged) t« i! ‘The professor said the compres. MIG-18 J Hesder plane: A STS a | i{sor may be m boa to harried) (edt the plane on 2 Pome u Fe sho. foot Ay an tholf last | Feiieresidectial speech thet rons Baltic inland of | Dorvholm an hour and 18 minutes could be eta es Master Mind Lane revealed parts of the story: . He said the group’ ap t could be accompli r interest was to be, edptale LaneThe Deseret News - Mar 10, 1953 CHAMPAIGN, TL. (INS) sreted by elentists can now mate time Carthy | fy or erawi for you. ‘They have unveiled « device) vertifatio ‘whieh ean condense an hour of yon” apeeeh oF muste Into 45 minutes! Dr Pox ‘or atreteh them to an hour and/slonal tov 15 minutes, Seward bo Prof. Grant Fairbanks, one of Fe" | the inventors of the mac! ine| ercise tnd firector of the Untvet ity| Velde ¢ research, ‘ith a commercial laboratory, also contributed to the creation 7y¢ 11 of the device inisted the The machine ts expected to Jeet any ¢ te a boon for timeconscious ing only | radio execu oltclann ty attacks news commentators and ¥rary gation me Uisteners. the recore Radio stations will be able to The Re use the device to “tailor” pro of Washi! grams fo fit time allotments odist. Chi Political candidates and com probe of mentators can employ it 10 com Sunday, « press more words Into # shorter sional in me enter eve And the eversuffering lis set every! tener will be able to get the, bor and whole ordeals over with sooner. picious of The machine chops words or music Into small sections. throws part of these away shoves the remainder close to gether in compressing them. Compressions of 10 per cent are unnoticeable and more than 50 per cent shortenings do not destroy understandability.Toledo Blade - Sep 3, 1951 Browse this newspaper » Influence Of Emotions j By ALBERT EDWARD WIGOAM, D. 64. ——————_ INFLUENCE | oom HER BABY'S PERSONALITY? OF AN EQUCATED yom vesOnoO) PERSON? vESDNOL) Answer To Question No. 1 jperson soon begins to stammer.| aceon child psy-ltalk gibberish and become hys- Bian aresgenel nd P*vijterical. One student stuck it outToledo Blade - Oct Browse this news Computer Subtly Squeezes Shows For More Ad Time By STEPHEN ADVOKAT Keio Mews. Service If you look closely while watching “Star Trek” this week, you may notice a little more spring in Cap- tain Kirk's step. Spock may appear ‘slightly ess pensive, and Scotty may bea wee bit more frenetie than usual. In fact, if you think everything Jooks just little quicker than you remember it, you're right. Scores of stations across the country are using, ‘a computer called Lexicon to speed up certain programs, allowing time for necessary commercials and sti tion identifications without requii ing any cuts. It’s a subtle alteration, Still, even though the Lextcod avoids viewer-rattling editing cuts, it means the squeezed programs are not exactly in the form their cre~ ators intended. “although it does alter, to some extent, the way a. program was originally produced.” says Ron Noonan, president of Massachusetts- based Lexicon, Ine., “it's probably less objectionable than what I call the tyranny of the scissors. I sup- pose it is possible that some people will feel a litle deceived because it is so subtle.” ‘Television programs generally fly by us at about 30 frames a second. To tighten a movie, the Lexicon subtly deletes one or more of those frames. A clip here and a clip there ‘on a two-hour movie can eventually ‘add up to considerable savings. Although the Lexicon — more precisely, the Lexicon 1200 Audio ‘Tume Compressor — can shorten a program by as much as a third, ‘Noonan acknowledges that to do so ‘would invite an armed revolt by television viewers. But although the station places Timits on how much of a program it shorten, it's not bashful about how many programs it will com- press. During a recent demonstration, I watched the opening segments of a “Little House on the Prairie” epi- ssode at normal speed and one com- pressed by 3 per cent and couldn't tell the difference. The machine automatically adjusts the pitch so characters don't sound like Mickey ‘Mouse no matter how fast the speed. ‘And the movements of the cast ‘seem just as fluid and natural in the ‘compressed version as in the unal- tered state. If you look very closely, you can detect some slight differences. Mu- sic, particularly from stringed in- struments, seems to waver a little in the compressed version, And during certain scenes with straight lines, such as a horizon, an ever-so-slight jump or tick can be detected. Bit it's so subtle as to be easy to mistake for a poor quality print or the result of a nearby thunderstorm. It’s unclear how artists feel about having their work nipped here and tucked there. “T think it would vary a lot with the picture,” says Kurt Luedtke, an Academy ‘Award-winning screen: play writer and former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press. Monkees’ Reunion Concert Set For TU The national reunion tour of the Monkees will stop at the University of Toledo's Centennial Hall at 9 pm. Nov. 15, Joining the Monkees will be Gary Puckett, Herman's Her- mits, and the Grass Roots, Tick- ets wall go on sale Saturday at the Centennial Hall box office and all usual ticket outlets. Fasealy Place RAAIK Wat" fine away —HERG LUT Gf, ai i ‘el vie a i ni He i HIE Hard hi deel in PQQ Peoofolotzo KM i Hany re i q Lee i a ia ih i : a ail i quill i i ea i ie i Gal a ea ial HE i oo Lt i He a iit slit iH ae im si full ial ‘ih tt Hi i ae a dal Hi i be iloaienalThe Spokesman-Review - Dec 31, 1938 Browse t FEAR MAKES STRONG r MEN’S VOICES “SISSY” CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dee, 30, (4) —Fear makes sissies out of strong men. Their voices, when they are afraid, vibrate in the same [fre- quency as those of women, Dr. Grant Fairbanks of the University of Iowa said here today. Both sexes unconsciously drop the pitch when expressing Indif- ference. So if you want to feign nonchalance, speak softly. Dr. Fairbanks addressed the Na- tional Association of Speech Teach-|, ers. —m10—THE DESERET NEWS Wednerday, December 31, 1047 Speech Delegates See Peer Gynt Delegates and guests of the Speech Association of America convention took time out om meetings last night to make their way to the University of [toh to witness a repent performance of “Peer Gynt." Watehing with interdIl was Dr. B. V. Morkovin, a speech research professor of the University of Southern California, He taught at the University of Utah fen years ago, and at the pres. ent time it making movies to help train the hard of hearing ‘The system does for the deal what Braille docs for the blind, Making the trip with Dr, Morkovin was Dr, Lee Edward Travis, head of the department of speech at USC, nnd Dr. Grant Fairbanks, who Is in charge of the speech elinie there. Carl Isaacson, from Idaho State College at Preatello, head of the department of radio, was In the audience Gall Plummer, well known University of Utah man, wel- comed guests to the evening per~ formance. Sawyer, Genevive Beck, Lobby-tatking before the show were Morris Val Jones, from UCLA, W. W. Garver, North Idaho Junior College, and Ed- ward Wright, a Dennison Uni- versity professor, from Grand~ ville, Ohio, Students nnd professors made the trtp from Prove to atend the convention, including Dr. and Mra, , Earl Pardoc, Preston Gledhill, Morris Clinger, and Alonzo Morley, who is general secretary of the speech associa~ tion of the western states, Brigham Young students were enthusiastic about the speech conclave, and last night's pbr- formance. They included Sariah Don Weaver. Dob Kest, El Tippets and Melvin Jex. Two hopeful’ speech teachers attending the three day sess and the University play night were Evelyn Morgay, 4711 Ninth Bast, and Naomi Clark of Farmington.lite | | a a “time in speech and pli Nae th voice and, ee und tongue. ow we can I Het rai ee neue : 3 3 2 x g oS £ 5 = é Ae ke He aH HuBHLD |; eal iin a li ey Ha buabae CHB SenT iQQ WE Pave [ia] or35 KEN Ml Boca Raton News -Dec 18,1986 Browse this newspaper» Browse all newspapers » — Thureday, December 18, 1988 Page 6¢— THE NEWS: ui : HO it iinlfel 4 tn ra i, fu i ie Fi Ba Ht iBrowse all newspaper: a movies SPOKANE CHRONICLE. MON., JULY 14, 1966 we device squeezes 0 Spokane Chronicle - Jul 14,1986 Browse this newspaper » Ii i a itll ia eal] i ut ii ie is pt ih i in He it ae at iH h ° ye: inl hte i Ald He #33 Ha Hb pu if ye a esta ue ce + i a aE fea # 1 Gee a a if i By the way. there's only one part ties Ii you have a See an eae balthels ewe ai a i il ene ih ie a Lee i sca nile 1 pee ie