This pre-hoc hokum is new to us, & even the late Mr. Saarinen might raise an eyebrow at having his work ballyhooed over loudspeakers aimed at strollers already dismayed at the general racketing that goes or in N.Y.
But my reservation is this: Mr. Rouse and Stephan Moore, seated at keyboards by the stage, chose to add a general sonic racket through loudspeakers (city noises, subway announcements) that was audible through the earphones.
Its growth appears not to have been affected by the arrival of another channel, Nat Geo Wild, owned by National Geographic and News Corporation.American pay-television is a reliable racket in general, thanks to the fees distributors pay for content.
See Dialects of Racket and Scheme for general information about different dialects of Scheme within Racket.
As Major General Smedley Butler once said, "war is a racket".
Major General Smedley Butler had it right: War is a racket.
"Frankly, what the general is doing is beginning to resemble an extortion racket," he told me.
One racket is poultry: judging by their imports, says the general, Transdniestrians eat 12 times as much chicken as Germans.
By the time it directly alleged that Pérez Molina headed the racket last month, the protest movement had swelled to a general clamour to end corruption.
