Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music darts into the ear, does its subtle job in the subcortex of the brain, then slips out the other ear without saying goodbye. The listener is all but unaware that he has heard anything, but the music has sloshed around inside his head, and, relieved of the humdrum business of thinking, he feels better immediately. His mouth smiles. He likes his work, loves his wife, spends his money. The only thing he has to fear is silence, but thanks to a company called Muzak and its many imitators in the background music business, he has nothing to worry about...
Robert Lewis, 36, a sometime Western Union messenger, liked to hang around the only grocery store in Walnut, Calif, (pop. 929) and bend Co-Owner Leonard Harvey's ear. "I'm proud to say I got nothing against the Negro," Lewis would boast. "Why, I served with them in the Army for eight years, eleven months and 23 days." Grocer Harvey listened sympathetically; after all, he and the rest of Walnut knew that Lewis was the Negro's champion, and had thereby got himself on somebody's hate list...
...been expended on Wagner, he remains the most disputed composer of all the masters. Few deny the immensity of his musical genius (one Italian critic listens to Wagner recordings only while down on his knees). The world's orchestras have been permanently reformed and enriched by his advanced ear for harmony and color. Still, there are those who insist that Wagner's music should be outgrown by 20, like acne, an opinion that seems as eccentric as Wagner's own sham intellectualism. He was everything from eugenicist to antivivisectionist to amateur Buddhist, but recent and serious studies...
...York's emergency pavilion is almost a complete hospital in miniature. It has full X-ray facilities, its own laboratory, a suite of three operating rooms, a modern plaster room for prompt immobilization of fractures, a room for ear-nose-throat cases and dental emergencies. The only major demand not met on the spot is for "something in the eye": ophthalmic examinations require expensive and delicate equipment that would be uneconomic to duplicate, and patients are sent to the regular eye department on another floor...
...spent much of his life pursuing a kind of mys tical lost chord. His quest began at 19, in his native Columbus, Ohio, where he literally dreamed of playing two horns at the same time and was entranced by what he heard in his mind's ear. After an antique dealer turned up the manzello, which approximates the soprano sax, and the stritch, which is close to an alto sax, Kirk began practicing what he had dreamed. Since then he has blown his horns all over Europe and the U.S.; he is a dauntless explorer of the frontiers...