Summertime by Richard Crawford

Author:Richard Crawford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

BCW: You may call it culture, but I feel the word is a little high-falutin. Children trying to study over the clamor, people attempting to sleep while competing, loud-speakers blare in neighboring apartments. In many families the instrument is left on from the time papa comes home, sometimes from the time mama gets up. I was a guest the other night at a home where the radio “went” all evening. Conversation was simply impossible. After a few shrieking interludes, I gave it up. It becomes—

At this point, reported Gladys Oaks, “with the most graceful gesture in the world, Mr. Gershwin interrupted her.”

That’s simply bad manners, . . . not anything wrong with the radio. Of course we don’t expect people to keep it going in the children’s study hours, or while their guests are discussing the universe. The beauty of the thing is that you can have just as much of it as you want by merely shifting a dial! . . .

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