Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than half a century. During the era of the trust bust, it was common to see his lanky figure alongside such luminaries as William Howard Taft, Louis D. Brandeis and Teddy Roosevelt. During the war years, he was never more than a vestibule's distance from President Wilson's ear, and in the dark days that followed he stood grandly above the politics which killed the peace...
...James Baldwin, such occasional writers as Leonard Bernstein and non-writers as Mike Nichols. Lantz is particularly adept at movie roles. "You have to know the territory," he explains. "You must know the real dope -who is hot, who are the bankable elements of a deal, who has the ear of an important star or director. Everything is interrelated. Every work of art can be commercially exploited, can go into anything, become anything...
...That climactic note, 3½ years after the encounter that overtly set the stage for the all-out U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, was one of the few certitudes about an incident that seems destined to rank in history with such hoary whodunits as the War of Jenkins' Ear...
...doubt your picture of the execution of a Viet Cong officer by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan will bring much satisfaction to the hairy 2% of our populace who revile the atrocities, some real and some imagined, committed by the U.S. and its allies while turning a deaf ear to murder and assassination by the Viet Cong. I only hope that alongside of it in the history books is placed the picture of the South Vietnamese officer carrying the body of his child murdered by these same Viet Cong...
...Hunting. A sonar operator needs a highly trained ear to sort out the sounds of the sea. Apart from a sub's noises, the sea is full of other sounds, a syncopated symphony of crackling shrimp, clucking sea robins and grunting whales; there is even the engine-like throb of an unknown sea animal that Navymen call the "130-r.p.h. fish." Once the various sounds have been sorted out, the American sub hunters flash the details of the sub's signature to a Navy base in the U.S., where a computer has memorized the signatures of the vast majority...