Word: ear
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Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord (Columbia). One of the most original and least played of contemporary U.S. composers, Carter (now 51) appears in a work of characteristic complexity and charm. After a series of opening sonorities that explode on the ear, the sonata evolves into a dialogue between the harpsichord-querulous and spidery-and the other members of Carter's oddly assorted chamber group. For all its skirmishing, the sonata has no trouble finding its witty way home...
...highest total previously collected from the College was received in 1918, when a joint Student Council-Combined Charities drive netted $23,000. $6,000 of this sum, however, was ear-marked for the Council, leaving the Charities total at only...
...good old days when a painting was addressed to the eye instead of to the ear, when it spoke for itself and needed no explanation. Now vision is verbalized, and the honest artist is out of fashion-and out of luck. I might suggest that $30,000 for a mess of refuse from the town dump is a high price to pay for jargon. Happily, the wheel will turn...
...cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing the boy's ear...
...happier men watch birds, I watch men." confesses Evelyn Waugh, and in this account of two months of African travel early last year, he is as good as his word. His collector's eye for the gaudier human specimens and his ear for the strange sounds they utter are as sharp as ever. As for the prose: in the present sellers' market, no man writes English better...