...that all tastes and moods can be suited." " It appears to me, Miss Lecte," I said, "that ifwectuild have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect ir. quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should...

...to gay, so that all tastes and moods can be suited." " It appears to me, Miss Leete," I said, " that if we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in qualify, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should...

...a modest revival now, believed that it would be "the limit of human felicity" if people could have "music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited...to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will".* This describes the phonographs and stereo tape recorders now in many American and European homes. llany...

...still important. In his utopian novel Looking Backward, published in 1888, Edward Bellamy wrote that "if we could have devised an arrangement for providing...have considered the limit of human felicity already attained."46 Bellamy did not know it, but what he wanted was a radio. At the time, the possibility...

...still have music on almost constantly. JOAN KENNEDY, THE /or OF CLASSICAL Mus;c If we could devise an arrangement for providing everybody with music...mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should consider the limit of human felicity (to be) already attained EDWARD BELLAMY Your day is now! Every...

...professional musicians played around the clock. Bellamy anticipated recorded sound when he described "An arrangement for providing everybody with music...to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will.'" Thomas Edison was also a visionary, a man who made it his business to see into the future, and who...

...a Utopian society in the year 2000. Within each home there was a future version of the radio: "They have devised an arrangement for providing everybody...their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity ... you can hear by merely pressing a button." 5 But even before Bellamy's ideas went into print, there...

...professional musicians played around the clock. Bellamy anticipated recorded sound when he described "An arrangement for providing everybody with music...suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will."1 Thomas Edison was also a visionary, a man who made it his business to see into the future,...

...Strohm. 1 The Evolution of a Revolution (Origins-1930s) It appears to me, Miss Leete, "I said," that if we could have devised an arrangement for providing...the limit of human felicity already attained, and cease to strive for further improvements. —EDWARD BELLAMY, LOOKING BACKWARD, 18881 George Gardner...