Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music and strict academic form, the more free you will be as you compose later on." Again, she says: "With young composers detail is infinitely important and few pay enough attention to it." Her main concern in teaching is "to develop the conscience of a musician, which is his ear." It is this care for control and intellectual tradition that makes her a great teacher, according to her students. And she can demand much of her students because in her training she demanded at least as much of herself...
...Easter, TIME'S Religion Editor John T. Elson flew to Basel, Switzerland, to talk to the man on this week's cover. Theologian Karl Earth. They talked, among other things, of Calvin, Mozart and Reinhold Niebuhr ("a great man. but if only he had an inner ear, through which he could hear what Mozart is saying, he wouldn't be so serious all the time"). Barth cheerfully remarked that a Barthian usually smokes a pipe; an orthodox theologian, cigars; and liberals, cigarettes. He offered Religion Editor Elson-a cigar...
...sheer, outstanding inability, Lieutenant Hutton quickly rises to the top of the nut heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just...
Trumpets pealing and trombones blaring, New York City's Department of Sanitation band oompahed into an ear-shattering rendition of the University of Minnesota's fight song-The Minnesota Rouser. On the speakers' platform, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Lothrop Freeman, 43, a Gopher alumnus (B.A. and LL.D.) and former Governor of Minnesota, perked an ear to the air, broke off his conversation with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, and hustled over to the band. "Thanks, boys," cried Freeman. "I haven't heard that in quite a while." Bandleader John Celebre, still brandishing...
...Door is as unplotted as living. Only the sparkling sharpness of the author's ear and eye keeps the action in this long book from bogging to the axles in minutiae. Sillitoe writes with authority, but he thinks with the same sentimental confusion between personal and collective ethics that is the trademark of Britain's new radicals, the unilateral disarmers...