Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens; RCA Victor). A hit comprehensible only to the darkling adolescent ear. One of the nation's top singles, evolved partly from a South African chant, it warns in its insistent, dronelike way of a lion lurking near the village-but "Hush, my darling / Don't fear, my darling / The lion sleeps tonight." What Variety calls, with more truth than poetry, "a sleeper...
Assembly, by John O'Hara. The best ear in the business listens in on modern America with 26 short stories, some of which rank high among O'Hara's upper-middle classics...
...Ear & the Nose. At Cooper Union, she studied under Regionalist John Steuart Curry, but learned most from the Union's director, Austin Purves, a painter who is now almost forgotten. Purves insisted that the ear and the nose, and not the eye alone, were important to the artist, so he would bundle his students off to Klein's department store or the Fulton fish market "to paint things we could smell." Ruth hated it; she wanted to be a fashion artist. One day at Central Park zoo, a fellow student drew an animal with a moving expression...
...wake of a bitter, 20 m.p.h. wind. Most of the 134 contestants who lined up on Michigan State University's golf course at the start of last week's four mile N.C.A.A. Cross-Country Championships were well insulated against the cold: they wore stocking caps, ear muffs and sweat shirts. Some even wore socks over their hands. Not Oregon State's hardy Dale Story, 19. Barefoot, dressed only in lightweight trackman's skivvies, he explained: "I like the natural feel." Added Story's coach, Sam Bell: "It's part of Dale's toughening...
...most epigraphs: "My task ... is, by the power of the written word, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more. And it is everything." At least it is everything that O'Hara does well (if, for this master of the ear, it is understood that feeling includes hearing). The peculiar limitation of the author's great skill is that, while no one can handle sight, sound and mood better, almost any journeyman novelist can deal with plot complications with more professional ease...