Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, more important for the cook than for the cooking." Thus armed, pot and potted, Alice's disciples are advised merely to improvise and advertise. "If you tell people that what you're cooking is absolutely fantastic-if you squeeze their arm and whisper in their ear that this meal is the greatest yet-they're going to love it. They'll never suspect that that strange taste in the potatoes is just that you've burned them...
...pressures that are being applied are right, and results will come if the Government stays on its course. Because Burns is reluctant to change his mind once he has made it up, he could stay on that course too long. Burns will unquestionably continue to have Nixon's ear. But there is some doubt in Washington about what will happen when the President decides that the time has come to switch from anti-inflation to antirecession policies-and quietly calls on the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to ease up on money. At that time, will Nixon have...
...indeed think. So we offered him a cup of our very best coffee- a subversive act, I gather- and bent an ear. As it turned out, the questions seemed pretty sensible to us. So we responded, sensibly or otherwise, as fully as we knew how. I hadn't realized then, silly me, that the content of Hyland's report couldn't possibly be affected by anything Hyland learned during that hour and a half. As far as Hyland was concerned, this was just fun and games- "a way of mutual indulgence in a creative function," as he describes...
Like all of Chekhov, The Three Sisters is open to several interpretations, but to make it insipid, boring and silly requires Ball's gall as well as his company's ineptitude. As the guest director of Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear, Gower Champion manages to intrude defects on the play that it never possessed. Feydeau was to the French bedroom farce what Einstein was to the theory of relativity. With gimmicks and gaucherie, Champion botches all of Feydeau's intricately precise equations of who-is-sleeping-with-whom-be-hind-which-door...
...London), the latest book by Cyril Dean Darlington, 65, a British geneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society and Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford. None of these academic credentials describe Darlington's true vocation. He is an intellectual maverick, dedicated to setting the scientific Establishment on its ear. His new book is the culmination of the author's long assault on the complacent conviction, still defended by many social scientists, that man represents a kind of dead end on the evolutionary trail: a resplendent terminal species that, if not perfect, is at least complete...