Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Private Ear and The Public Eye, by Peter Shaffer. Light entertainment is a promise the theater is quick to make and slow to honor. In these two one-acters, the promise is entrancingly kept. They defy the laws of mental gravity and lift a playgoer out of his world only to see it better, just as a dream is sometimes truer than a thought...
...Private Ear relies more on memory than magic, what playgoers remember and rue about their own first stumbling, infatuated steps toward love. "Tchaik" (Brian Bedford), a whimsically imaginative boy nicknamed for Tchaikovsky, is pathetically in earnest about classical music and a quality called "inner beauty" that is symbolized for him in a reproduction of Botticelli's Venus over his bed. With fear and trembling, plus a savvy pal's coaching, he has invited to his scrubby flat what he thinks is a feminine moonlight sonata. Enter the girl (Geraldine McEwan), a sniffly, scratchy, giggly chick with the inner...
...awakened out of my reverie by a raucous voice shouting in my ear. "Iced Coke--Hot chocolate!" The electric time clock at the end of the horseshoe flashed to its final reading--00.00. The referee's whistle blew. The contestants withdrew. A score of nil-nil was generally adjudged by the cognoscenti to be as good as could have been hoped...
...letter to the CRIMSON Mary King, a SNCC field secretary in Atlanta, "strongly suggests" that any contributions be sent to SNCC, "ear-marked" for the defense of the students in Americus. She added that because of the persistent news black-out in the South SNCC will step-up its attempts to disseminate information on civil rights cases in the North
...Mauldin, Herblock, Paul Conrad of the Denver Post, Fritz Behrendt of Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad-can transcend mere exaggeration to reach with a few lines the essence of a subject's character. "It is not simply a matter of drawing a big nose bigger and a floppy ear floppier," Kelen writes. "It involves an evaluation of the inner man through his outward features. A caricature is an opinion." For 40 years, from the League of Nations to the United Nations, Kelen scanned the world's leaders like road maps-and usually their faces told him just where...