Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they'd look out the dining-room window and see the planes coming over the trees headed toward the house. That sort of thing you get sensitive about." Even Griggs's wife, who is so hard of hearing that "you had to virtually shout in her ear," was awakened by the planes' vibrations. Windows rattled; plaster fell in the living and dining rooms. Running from one side of the house to another, Lawyer Griggs chased after the planes to note their markings so that he could substantiate his complaints with the airlines...
Many airports specify the use of runways that take ear-blasting traffic away from residential areas...
...MacNeil, Giulietta Simionato, Sylvia Stahlman, Fernando Corena; Chorus and Orchestra of L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Georg Solti; London). A rather studied approach and over-resonant sound take some of the flash out of this performance, but Soprano Nilsson and Mezzo Simionato remain joys to the ear, and Tenor Bergonzi sings with distinction...
...Movement's poets, 40-year-old Philip Larkin (The Less Deceived). Larkin has the happy faculty of rescuing the special tenderness or peculiar anguish of small experiences that everyone has had but no one has bothered to examine. At his best, he is a dwindled Wordsworth in whose ear the ghost of Rilke sometimes whispers. In this little poem, one of Larkin's subtlest, it whispers of-death...
Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!. . . Moloch whose name is the Mind...