Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave an ear open idly in Cambridge today, somebody is going to sell you a piece of a musical venture. The air hums with propaganda about symphony orchestras, string quartets, singers, wire-recording devices, and the like. It therefore came as a surprise to learn the other day, quite by chance and without the usual hoopla, of a new opera company in Boston, to be headed by the redoubtable Boris Goldovsky...
...wear an eagle Nothing much to fear, Guys like Captain Carroll Lose the judges' ear...
...Left Ear Salad. Flagg's book is entitled Roses and Bucks'ot (Putnam;$3.75). The roses are reserved for himself and a multitude of boon and swoon companions; the buckshot flies in all directions...
...flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal organs. Before his eyes, little lights will flash. In his ear a buzzer will buzz. He can put out the lights and still the buzzer by pressing the proper buttons. When he no longer can, he will be considered unconscious...
During the five years that he lived in the village of Sayan, plump, apple-cheeked Colin McPhee, 45, never succeeded in getting Balinese to like American music. But the ancient Oriental melodies which they beat from bronze gongs and piped from bamboo flutes won his Occidental ear. His Balinese memoirs, published this week (4 House in Bali, John Day, Asia Press; $4), tinkle with a swirling eddy of music for. religious rites, shadow plays and joyful cremations...