Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young man lay drowsing on the operating table, numbed by morphine and a local anesthetic. Dimly, without pain, he felt the surgeon's electric drill cut through the bony tissue of his deafened ear. Then "a little pinch," and suddenly a great roar, like the waves of the sea. It was the muttered conversation of doctor and nurses, the first sounds the young man had heard in 16 years. For two weeks he lay in the hospital, gradually accustoming himself to the thunder of swinging doors, the drums and tramplings of tiptoeing nurses...
...human ear consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long canal to the eardrum. The soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...
Main cause of the deep middle-ear deafness which afflicts 5,000,000 people in the U. S. is otosclerosis, a bony overgrowth blocking off the window which leads to the inner ear. Most operations designed to open a window may be dangerous, for they involve partial destruction of the heavy mastoid bone. Dr. Lempert cuts directly through the ear (see cut), and carves out a brand-new window. With a dentist's burr, he drills into the middle ear, drills out a new window in one of the semicircular canals and rearranges hammer, anvil and stirrup...
...Mary Louise Curtis Bok sank more than $100,000 in the Philadelphia Grand Opera's production of Alban Berg's screwy, ear-splitting Wozzeck. After that, doldrums-until the Philadelphia Opera Company was born, two years ago. Its father was Charles David Hocker, a onetime bank clerk who, at 19, got ex cited about the Philadelphia Orchestra's Youth Concerts, became their manager a year later. For musical director of his opera, Hocker got a onetime piano prodigy, Sylvan Levin, who had been assistant conductor to the great, emotionally profiled Stokowski. Hocker & Levin resolved to keep their...
...feminine lead in Bethel Merriday is an earnest small girl from a middle-class New England household who takes college theatrics seriously, gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...