Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in English, Mayakovsky's writing (13 volumes) has the untamed drive of a runaway tractor. Though much of it to a Western ear is talented but tiring rabble-rousing, in the lyrics and in the love poems speaks a genuine poet's voice-speaking more truly than any party-line drivel. "Always to shine/to shine everywhere/to the very deeps of the last days...
...observations untainted by sentimentality, Wallant follows every step of Berman's descent into melancholia. His eye and ear, as he tells of Berman's deterioration, are so good that time after time readers may experience the discomforting shock of self surprised. At first the plumber's grief seems simple-inward weeping set off by a breath of perfume from a bathroom cabinet, or the sudden spaciousness of his bed. Then, wallowing in his sadness, Berman turns on everyone who offers comfort. Even his married daughter, who tries to mother him, is stung by his quick, aimless angers...
...spent her "vacation" in Albuquerque, N. Mex. undergoing a brutal battery of 75 separate physical and psychological tests. She was jabbed with an electric needle, rocked back and forth on a tilting table to test her circulation. Her sense of balance was measured by squirting cold water into her ear canals to induce dizziness. Psychologists peppered her with 195 questions (sample: "Do you wish you were dead and away from it all?"), evaluated her ability to adjust to new environments, grasp complicated instructions, keep her sense of humor. The result, according to Dr. Lovelace: she had qualified to "live, observe...
...Think It Is Tragic." The gallery crowds had come to see Kennedy and Nixon thrust and parry, but neither did much battling that eye or ear could detect from the galleries. Kennedy left it up to Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-operating tirelessly in his familiar arena with his old verve-to lead the Democratic troops on the floor. Nixon, as Senate president, was barred by tradition from speaking out, or even moving onto the floor. The chief Republican battler was Dwight Eisenhower, showing a combativeness that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress...
...settled, he might recall the state legislature to ask for special powers to show the Long Island how to run a railroad. Neither side wanted that. At midmorning Rockefeller slipped away long enough to have a cyst removed from under his right eye (six stitches) at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, came back to order ham and turkey sandwiches for all, then settled down-with dark glasses and an ice pack gracing his head-to sweat out the negotiations...