Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffering from hallucinations as she speaks into Charles' left ear, her husband's good ear, and tries to straighten his tie. Suddenly she collapses onto the grandfather's bed. The story ends...
...Bach-Walton: The Wise Virgins (the Concert Arts Orchestra, Robert Irving conducting; Capitol). Two ballet scores, dating respectively from 1917 and 1940. The Ladies, adapted by Italian Composer Vincenzo Tommasini from the works of Scarlatti, is airy, bright, bubbling, and contains scarcely a note that does not please the ear. The Virgins, adapted from the works of Bach by England's William Walton, is unfailingly evocative of a less harried time. Neither of the ballets survives as a stage work, but their music deserves a better fate-and gets it here...
...festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center piano), and bend the playgoer's ear without touching his heart or prickling his nerves. They all seem to be high on bootleg rhetoric ("You drink a cup of sunlight, you're immortal...
...initiative to the woman. The man's problem is to be ready for a kiss, but not so far committed that he cannot smoothly recover if he is offered only a hand. And he must be clear about the target area-a few inches forward of the ear but well clear of the lips; smearing the lady's makeup is unforgivable...
...them give ear to the anguished cry of 'Peace, peace,' which rises up to heaven from every part of the world," he said, urging governments "to make the sacrifices that are necessary to save the world's peace. Said John: "It is time that something decisive was done...