Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koussevitzky of insulting them.* In those days, Aaron Copland was the kind of cacophonous enfant terrible in the U.S. that Igor Stravinsky had once been in Paris. If audiences were no longer disturbed by these terrible children, it was for different reasons. Igor Stravinsky had waited for the public ear to become attuned to his jazzy dissonances. Aaron Copland had modified his harmonies to please the public...
...Forces' trigger-happiness was likely to embarrass it. State would have to be doubly careful now in approving the flight. What the U.S. clearly needed was a machinery for deciding upon a foreign policy and executing it-a well-oiled, smooth-running machine in which no foreign ear could hear the gears clashing...
...unusually high proportion of students with automobiles. The University has closed completely to undergraduates the old parking lot at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, which now lies at least 75 per cent vacant. At the same time, faced with protests from House residents (presumably non-ear owners) the University has disallowed overnight parking in such areas as the Eliot-Winthrop quadrangle, while the Cambridge police have inaugurated a full-scale campaign to enforce the fire law which prohibits parking on any municipal street between 2 and 4 A.M. For many students who must have automobiles in Cambridge...
...Gold Coast Valeteria. The structure is fraught with symbolic significance. The western tip was designed to depict a smiling face, while the eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife and mused, "I wonder what church that...
...said in a press release that it was "impossible to do business with the I.T.U." But nobody in Springfield was surprised to see him doing business with bespectacled Robert C. Kirkpatrick, the union's international representative. He was already calling him "Bob." And when Bob got a troublesome ear ailment, Bowles arranged for him to visit a clinic. So far he hadn't asked Bob up to the big Bowles house on Crescent Hill, which the sheriff had just sold to the state in settlement of a court judgment...