Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People who hear a ringing, hissing or ticking in their own ears are suffering from a fairly common complaint called tinnitis (caused by inflammation of the middle ear, drugs, head injuries, neuroses). Tinnitis is generally "subjective" (only the victim hears the ticking...
Sanky Flynn, 30-year-old textile millworker of Greensboro, N.C., has a rare tinnitis that is "objective": in a quiet room, other people can hear his right ear ticking three feet away;* his left ear also ticks, but not so loudly. Flynn's ears tick every 15 seconds...
...major achievement is that Robert Gibbons makes his overdrawn characters credible. He has a sharp eye for the commonplaces of small-town life, a good ear for common speech, an unsparing fidelity in recording the stupidities and the brutalities of the townspeople. The imagination revealed in his characterizations, the lopsided half-caricatures that still talk a recognizable native language, indicate an emerging talent of the first importance. The defects in the book are consequently all the more glaring...
...comes from viewing the high plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor: "Those 25 Gs could have fallen into much, much less able hands...
...uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethic whispers into my ear," he once wrote. "You are happy, it says; therefore you are called upon to give much. Whatever more than others you have received in health, natural gifts, working capacity, success, a beautiful childhood, harmonious family circumstances, you must not accept as being a matter of course. You must pay a price for them. You must show more than an average devotion to life...