Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Excerpted, O'Hara dialogue seems melodramatic, but in his stories it reads smoothly. Over the years O'Hara's ear for dialogue has become something of a legend, as critics never tire of reminding us. Yet he did not come by this talent easily: he worked at it as a young journalist. Fox example, in 1929 he got a New Yorker assignment to report the meetings of the Orange County Afternoon Delphian Society. As Walcott Gibbs reflected in 1938, after a while the stories became almost impossible to read, "the sensation was uncomfortably like being trapped among the ladies while...
...good ear is only one of several talents which critics generally concede to O'Hara. Another is a good eye. Lionel Trilling has pointed out that "he knows, and persuades us to believe, that life's deepest intentions may be expressed by the angle at which a hat is worn...
...substantial labors of both Mr. Boulez and the Department of Music. By the end of the evening, the audience in Sanders appeared grateful. The Department should present more such concerts of new music, by Mr. Boulez and others, with artists of equal caliber. Musical education proceeds best through the ear...
...Macqueen, who developed the demon knitter, began his career as a medical student but "whammed out be cause I wasn't much good." Then he manufactured rubber facial replacements for disfigured war victims. "To make sure they would stick," he says, "I sandpapered my tum and fixed an ear onto it with cement and wore it four months...
Glaser, who is currently dean of the University of Colorado Medical School, will oversee the uniting of the Boston Lying-In Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Free Hospital for Women, Massachusetts Eye and ear Infirmary, Peter Bent Brigham, and Robert Breck Brigham Hospitals...