Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parisians don't understand suburbs in the Westchester sense, so the French Rosemary could not dream of a home in New Rochelle and hope to strike a sympathetic chord. So Castans changed the town to Bagatelle, outside Paris somewhere, but obviously expensive and exotic to the French ear...
...jazz, Monk is also less discussed than many others. Occasionally he will say some splendid thing and the story will make the rounds, but there are personalities more actively bizarre than Monk's around. Rollins is a Rosicrucian who contemplates the East River, letting his telephone ring in his ear for hours while he studies birds from his window. Mingus is so obsessed with goblins from the white world that person to person he is as perverse as a roulette wheel; his analyst wrote the notes for his last record jacket. Coltrane is a health addict?doing pushups, scrubbing...
Lung-artery disease is most likely to be diagnosed correctly, said Dr. Goodwin, if physicians have a suspicious eye and ear open for it. In difficult cases, a series of electrocardiograms may be decisive. And regardless of difficulty, it is important to diagnose the disorder early -when there is still hope of arresting it with anticoagulants. It probably is never "cured" in the literal sense, and only rarely is it reversed so thoroughly that the patient is freed of his handicap...
...runt with "codfish eyes" and a large compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not a man!" she hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young typist (Samantha Eggar...
...English academic life has become a minor classic. In One Fat Englishman, Amis has faced and triumphantly cleared the hazards of translation. Most English novelists cannot manage a single sentence in demotic U.S. speech without setting on edge the big white American teeth. But Amis' mimic's ear is true as tape...