Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Stars. Above Carpenter's right ear hung a glass globe in which he studied the movements of fluids freed from gravity. He had a camera with which he took pictures through the window, using several filters. He experimented with eating new kinds of special space food. He measured the brightness of stars and other outside objects with a photometer. Intricate gadgetry demanding his attention was everywhere. But for all his preoccupations, the astronaut found time to take a careful, searching look at the earth below him. And he brought back the best report...
Whenever he could get Shade's ear, he filled it with the romance of Zembla. But the poem, when it appears, is a sad, thoughtful intimation of mortality 999 lines long, focused loosely around the suicide of Shade's 23-year-old ugly-duckling daughter...
...Louis, the atmosphere inside was glum enough: the staggering Cardinals had just dropped a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It quickly got worse. Just 30 seconds after takeoff, a portside engine conked out, and Cardinal ballplayers stared tensely at the feathered prop. Only Stan Musial seemed unruffled. Grinning from ear to ear, he turned to a teammate: "I can see the headline now. CARDINAL PLANE CRASHES -MUSIAL LONE SURVIVOR...
...ear won't keep few fishes, Who is that rose in that blind house? And all slim, gracious blind planes are coming, They cry badly along a rose, To leap is stuffy, to crawl was tender...
...Shelagh Delaney, a Lancashire bus driver's daughter who was 18 when she wrote it, is as good as the best. In her first film script, touched up by Director Tony Richardson, the angry young ma'am displays dramatic drive, concussive humor, a barmaid's ear for dialogue, a slum kitten's shrewdness about people and motives, a melancholy flair for the poetry of wasted lives...