Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome was obvious from the start as Rice moved slowly and imperturbably forward, clubbing with his left while his right fist lay coiled behind his ear. Miller's only attack came at the start of round two, but whether Rice went to Miller or Miller came to Rice the results were the same. Rice chopped his way through Miller's gloves and laid the challenger out. There was no need for a ten count...
...boards. He doesn't really need his glasses, he said vainly, except for the hearing aids in the rims. Crowing about his musical skill, he said he was "the Van Gogh of the concert circuit," or, as one fan had put it, "He's lost his ear...
...three electronic pieces also have a preoccupation with free progression, but in this music the movement remains "surprises" and goes no further. The aesthetic ideas of these composers aside, such unpurposeful repetition of sounds (unpurposeful to my ear at least) is simply dull. This is particularly true of John Cage's Fontana Mix, where two tapes can be superimposed in any fashion--and where in this instance the combination resulted in twenty minutes of nonsense. Yet a recording exists in which that is not true: the record's particular overlapping of the tapes gives the noises a consistent texture...
...that he builds an ark in his back yard and stocks it with animals. Author Marcus writes of them with a compassion untainted by sentimentality. Like a somewhat similar writer, Hollywood's late Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), he has a quick eye and a sharp ear. Nothing finally happens to his characters; they are merely suspended before the reader for a moment in time, and they disappear into a future no more hopeful than their past. But for a few moments they stand illuminated in the light of understanding...
What could be more fun than a boys' summer camp? West turns it into a night mare. Camp Oo-patik-patok, the chief counselor tells his boys, is "home to the fierce he-wolf, home to the courageous howling pack." The boys are taught wolf traits, especially an ear-splitting howl; and on the last day of camp, they take turns baying at the moon, while their proud parents look on, secure in the knowledge that camp has made their little boy just like all the other little boys, i.e., as conformist as a wolf...