Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, busy cleaning house on the political levels (see FOREIGN NEWS), found time to cock an ear at the subject of Chattanooga Choo Choo and related items of sub-basement culture. They were not amused. Moscow's mighty Izvestia, whose nods and scowls are promptly imitated by all right-thinking bureaucrats, scowled at "dzhaz...
Holiday in Mexico (MGM) stimulates the eye and ear, but gives the pulse and brain a good 127-minute rest. It is chiefly a lavish Technicolor showcase for the considerable singing talents of a freshfaced young actress named Jane Powell. Jane plays the adolescent daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (Walter Pidgeon). The plot relentlessly examines her kittenish romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest...
...answer: Crosby failed to understand the "listener's ear." Crosby had another: NBC suffered from "broadcaster's ear." His conclusion: "If the broadcasters insist on censorship, a high form of discrimination is called for. Despite their vigilance, censors still are not keeping smut off the air. At the same time, unintelligent censorship is . . . driving radio writers into a sterile cynicism with no faith in themselves or their industry...
...power now rests in four men, some of them brand-new to high councils of any kind, in and out of government. They are the men who currently have Harry Truman's ear on all domestic matters, and some foreign; the men with whom he consults almost daily behind the Executive Office's closed doors. They are a college professor, a lawyer, a banker, and George himself...
...Unitarian service Committee representative in Vienna sent as telegram from Geneva on July 20, which said in part: "Harvard student action meets terrible need Austrian universities. Situation Vienna students particularly catastrophic. . . . Committee of wronged students who during Hitler ear excluded from university for racial reasons and active participation resistance movement. This Komitee Der Geschaedigten Studenten has 1,500 members certified victims of Nazism. . . . These students now lacking resources are forced to earn livelihood on the side irrespective of extreme malnutrition and illnesses contracted during long confinement camps. . . . Many valuable students lacking physical strength to continue face giving up studies. Anticipated...