From the day
Perspective: The Future Historian · Sound
The rhythmic static of the new commercial radio bands competes with the shrill whistle of a passing steam engine, a dissonant symphony of a world pivoting toward the electronic. I watch a woman in a beaded silk shift pause at the newsstand, her bobbed hair peeking from beneath a cloche hat as she scoffs at the ink-wet headline: GEN.WOOD DIVIDES OHIO DELEGATION; He Is Expected to Have Seven to Ten of the State's Total of 48 at Chicago. MAY GET ONE OF BIG FOUR Harding Faces Fight for Return to Senate as Well as Presidential Handicap. "Applesauce," she mutters over the cacophony of the street, more concerned with the crackle of modern life than the fractured politics of the GOP. To my historian’s ear, the true revolution isn't in Chicago’s delegate count, but in the humming wires overhead and the faint, tinny strains of "Whispering" drifting from a nearby shop window.