Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motive for someone more highly placed than a marine sergeant. Huong had tossed out the previous education minister after discovering that scholarships to universities abroad, which carry built-in exemptions from military duty, were being sold to rich men's sons instead of awarded on merit. Tri, an ear-nose-and-throat specialist and plastic surgeon who had been teaching at the National Medical School, accepted Huong's charge to clean up the scandal. He apparently was making progress. He had been threatened four times by telephone as well as in several unsigned letters...
MUSIC 51 is run on one apparent principle: that practical facility is as important as theory. Each student accordingly has two small keyboard sections after the Monday lecture. Miss Vosgerchian believes that to "understand" a technique of harmony means little. The mind and ear must be drilled until they can handle it facilely. Only then is a student inclined not to settle for the first harmonization he thinks of. He will be able to choose the best of several...
Already there are signs that the old and new national administrations want to retract but realize that reversing policy hurts like an ear unfreezing...
Each group is preparing to offer conflicting advice to the new President. "Within a few weeks," an official predicts, "there is going to be one hell of a battle." At stake in what some observers call the War for Nixon's Ear is the direction the President-elect will take in his search for peace...
...Mind's Ear. Such explanations, so necessary to the conception of a novel as story, in fact lessen the impact of a as an object of pop art. In good pop art, the content should be so obvious and blatant that accompanying descriptions are unnecessary. There should be no question of thinking, only of feeling, in much the same way that one senses the flickering of television images or campfire flames. In a, what small sensual pleasure might have been offered in allowing the eye and the mind's ear to skid passively over the letters and words...