Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been singing difficult music for them for an atonal decade. Among the group's achievements: Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Honegger's King David, the premiere of Roger Sessions' Mass. Invited to sing before the International Musicological Society Congress last fall, the choir caught the ear of the visiting European musicians, soon became the first U.S. high school group to receive a State Department cultural exchange grant. With additional community contributions, the choir took off on a 17-concert European tour that ends next week in London. Everywhere it went, it astonished audiences with its mature...
...transistorized, portable directional listening device called the Big Ear will make little brother into Big Brother for $18. "Pick up voices too distant for you to hear." coaxes the manufacturer, the Futura Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis. "Aim it at a group of friends a block away, and hear every word. " Also marketed by the friendly Futura people: the Big Voice ($12), a portable public-address system weighing only a pound, and the Big Blast ($10), a portable bullhorn "ideal for playground, spectator sports, boating, or just plain everyday...
...many of the same symptoms, plus conjunctivitis and a sore around her nose. These cleared up after tetracycline treatment. Then the family's six-and seven-year-old boys came to the doctor. They had severely abscessed glands, one in the armpit and the other behind the ear, which had to be punctured and drained...
...perhaps a bigger or better picture. Letting Go is a long, sober novel, mostly about the uncertainties of the university young (some Jewish, some gentile, none religious). Despite serious flaws, it is one of the better works of fiction published this year. The author's eye and ear have few equals, and on every page the reader knows that he is in the presence of a writer...
...large part of the responsibility improving the lecture system lies the students, however. Too many of regard themselves as mere belts between the speaker and books, and the lecture almost goes "in one ear and out the There are even some students tell you afterwards what they have down during a lecture...