Topical Guide 457
Mark Dorset
Tests and Testing
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 3:
He says, “It really is an unmistakable sound, the mixing of a martini. When I was a kid, radio stations used to have these sound quizzes. They’d play a sound, and if they called you up, you’d try to guess what it was. A toaster popping up, something like that.
Music: Rock ’n’ Roll
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 3:
He makes a mental note to tell her about lying in bed with the measles and hearing “Rock Around the Clock” for the first time.
Gadgets: Kitchen
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 3:
He throws himself into the routine that inspiration has thrust upon him, beginning with the voice of the radio announcer: “All right, Mrs. Edward Dingle, for a complete set of waterless cookware, what is this sound?”
Will she know what waterless cookware is? he wonders.
See also: Intelligence, Assessing TG 119; Music: Ottorino Respighi’s “Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute” TG 53; Records; Audio Equipment TG 12; Jazz: Coleman Hawkins: “Body and Soul” TG 252
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