Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene in about 18 months as a wholly new subculture, a bizarre permutation of the middle-class American ethos from which it evolved. Hippies preach altruism and mysticism, honesty, joy and nonviolence. They find an almost childish fascination in beads, blossoms and bells, blinding strobe lights and ear-shattering music, exotic clothing and erotic slogans. Their professed aim is nothing less than the subversion of Western society by "flower power" and force of example...
...course in his anthropological theory, a recognition seldom bestowed by any university until after the subject's death. The Germans have established a school called Strukturforschung (research of life structure), which adapts structural theory to the study of art. In the U.S., the amplifying academic debate commands the ear and the curiosity of non-academicians. Of his books, Structural Anthropology, Totemism, The Savage Mind and Tristes Tropiques are now available in English translation. Two more will arrive in the fall: Kinship Systems and The Raw and the Cooked. Wherever it occurs, the argument about Lévi-Strauss takes...
...association between dietary fats and heart disease (see above) seemed a strange subject for an ear and hearing specialist to be discussing. But Manhattan Ear Surgeon Samuel Rosen believes that the loss of hearing acuity in men and the incidence of heart attacks may have something in common. And he offered some fascinating evidence at the A.M.A. convention last week to support the idea...
...cycles per second-about the upper limit for an adult Western man. Equally significant, said Dr. Rosen, the Mabaan have no pronounced hearing loss at 4,000 c.p.s., which is particularly associated with loss of elasticity throughout the body, including small bone joints in the inner ear...
...Rosen maintains that loss of hearing with aging results largely from clogging and hardening of the minute arteries nourishing the ear. If so, it may be possible to detect future victims of heart disease early in life by a simple, though sensitive, hearing test. Finns aged 10 to 29, on high-fat diets, suffer hearing loss earlier than young Yugoslavs or Cretans, on low-fat diets. To find out whether the pattern holds for the U.S., Dr. Rosen is studying New York City schoolchildren and their parents. If a simple hearing test does indeed give early warning of heart disease...