Word: ear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand piano, which one player walloped with a lamb's-wool-covered drumstick) to achieve frequent climaxes of crashing, ear-numbing virtuosity. But the composition's most effective moments were also the most subdued: a passage in which drums rolled with the distant tremble of thunder while the pod rattle and wood blocks chattered with the strident noises of night...
...flue-scorching "twofer" stogies and forty-rod whisky (known as "red disturbance"), and there were real drinking men to lap it up, e.g., the miner in Bodie who, when he ran out of gold dust, slashed off his ear, slapped it on the bar and demanded credit. Manufacturers of bone combs were paying $1.25 for Indian skulls, and a white man's life was not worth much more...
Rump Session. At the White House somebody goofed twice in a row on forgetting to invite the Democrats' House Majority Leader John McCormack to two presidential briefings held for congressional leaders. House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck put a bug in the President's ear. Promptly, Ike invited McCormack for a full hour's presidential question-and-answer session...
...cohesiveness; this piece, rather aptly titled Conversations with Gryllus in August, was a collection of handsome sounds. Behrman's delicious piece contained several subtly insinuating probes which occasionally gave off small clouds of ylang-ylang and incense, but left little doubt as to the sensitivity of the composer's ear...
...whoopdedoo because he was an oboe player and wore a beard." He gets along famously with artists ("I like creative people"), has lured many of them to Columbia, partly because, as Richard Rodgers says, "Goddard and his people make you feel a little more appreciated." Lieberson has a good ear for trends-though he can sometimes prove hard of hearing. He thought rock 'n' roll was an undesirable and fleeting fad, refused to record the tunes till Columbia had lost millions of sales. As a result, RCA led Columbia last year in total sales because of its lead...