Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lend Me Your Ear...
...About the middle of the war, '42 or '43. It looked like the heaven-sent instrument. You could put pictures along with words and sentences. If you can get the eye and ear cooperating, you can do anything, I think. Television looked like the divinely appointed medium. So I got a little grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and I went to Walt Disney's studio to learn how to make cartoons...
...still think that T.V. or satellite-distributed sentence-situation-depiction games are going to be the way to educate the planet. There's more power to the eye and ear together than to either of them apart...
...Bertram Langsam loses his head and thumb. Ferdinand Fields, an Episcopal rector partial to horror flicks, is decapitated in the men's room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only loses an ear. The bloody trail is also strewn with a vengeful rabbi, scheming and pathetic women, a semi-transvestite, and other odd characters who are for the most part linked...
Certainly Lawrence Senelick, who directed Flea in Her Ear and Women Beware Women, has his people, especially a dedicated and erudite stage manager, Dave Brownell...