Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engaing assault on eye and ear, RTFs show takes the televiewer to a picnic on the Marne, a village Bastille Day fete, a couturier's salon. Hachette's producers rented a whole railroad to film the champagne country east of Paris, spent four days tying up traffic in the Avenue de 1'Opéra to film the perils of taking a Parisian taxi, and magnificently illustrated the verb "smell" by going to a pungent source-the Paris...
...other military brass to submit to the same treatment, the press emitted loud cries of censorship. But though the Kennedy edict certainly frustrated loose talk from the Pentagon, its effect has not been altogether negative. The din of senselessness and longstanding interservice quarrels no longer reaches the public ear...
...before he had written his first novel. At his peak, his output of hack work and potboiling romances reached a sizzling 8,000 words a day. Of the many millions of words he wrote, few are the right ones in the right order, but some defect of ear, taste or intelligence mercifully protected him from knowing this...
Does old Sinclair have more than an inkling of his own character? A sonnet he chooses to quote suggests that he does. "Child." apostrophizes Poet Harry Kemp, whose ear, like Sinclair's own, was of purest...
There must have been more to the thirties than the residue of cliches which Clifford Odets managed to preserve. A playwright with a petty temper, an unselective ear and an axe to grind, Odets savors little cliches that clutter his dialogue ("right from the word go . . .") and big ones that blur his vision ("last week I wanted to go to Russia...