Word: ear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poverty & Corruption. "I hear all my melodies," Kurt Weill once said, "sung in my inner ear by Lenya." The daughter of an illiterate Viennese coachman, she started singing at four in a neighborhood carnival; she still recalls being hauled at night out of the coal bin where she slept and made to warble sentimental favorites for her drunken father. Having mastered the techniques of standing on her head and walking a tightrope, Lenya enrolled at the Stadttheater in Zurich, worked up a dance act and moved on to Berlin. There she played the subway circuit, usually in Shakespeare. The year...
...this instance, the milieu is Jewish. But Schulman, though a Jew, has presented it with restraint: he was under no illusions of producing a "social drama," and he avoided the easy temptation of exaggerating the Jewish elements. Yet he shows a keen ear for Jewish speech; and has, without falling into mawkishness, captured just the right amount of protective close-knittedness so characteristic of Jewish family life...
Although she has been singing professionally half her life, Ernestine has caused so little public stir that she only recently caught the ear of the recordmakers (a first Anderson album, misleadingly titled Hot Cargo, was issued this summer by Mercury). Last week Ernestine was singing once a week for $25 at Los Angeles' Little Avant Garde Club. She gave the patrons mostly standards-But Not for Me, Gone with the Wind, Take the A Train-that dramatically displayed her talents. She can swing upbeat ballads in a light-textured voice or noodle a bit of the blues in tones...
...Ear Wax. Impacted wax in the ears can cause pain, giddiness and impaired hearing, is especially common during summer swimming. Also nonprescription, Cerumenex can be squirted into the ears at home by syringe. It loosens and dissolves the wax so that it is easily and painlessly flushed...
...Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice of one of his portrait subjects, Inventor Hudson Maxim: "The more you get to know celebrities, the more you will find their halo hanging over one ear...