Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure exactly how the rubella does its disabling work, but one result is the stunted growth of thousands of microscopic hair cells on the acoustic nerve in the recesses of the inner ear (see diagram). Doctors recently proved, by passing a wire under the hair cells and stimulating the nerve, that there is no nerve damage. But Dr. Edgar Lowell of the John Tracy Clinic* points out that "we still haven't cracked the neural code that transmits messages from the hair cells to the hearing nerve below." The ear conceals other mysteries as well, and there...
Once the case is diagnosed, the treatment is liable to be distressingly traditional and only mildly effective. As Dr. Harold F. Schuknecht of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary puts it: "You hang a hearing aid on 'em, give them lip reading and special training...
Media, McLuhan insists, are nothing more than extensions of some human faculty. The book, for example, is an extension of the eye. The telephone is an extension of the ear. Each society utilizes a number of different media, but emphasizes some more than others. Naturally when one medium dominates the rest, the human faculty of which it is an extension becomes more important than all the others...
Later Saturday evening, Alan Krebs, a leader of the Revolutionary Contigent, accepted his "eight or ten" casualties stoically. "It was a possibility that we would break right through those police," another Revolutionary explained. "But we were playing it by ear and decided not to." Other revolutionaries practiced karate during the post-mortem...
...appears to be a chronological survey of the possible relationships between individuals of the same sex. It starts out with a 1920 snapshot of two girls playing on the beach, and ends with a pair of young men wearing black leather jackets, iron crosses, and earrings (through the left ear only). These pictures suggest that people are changing and that they are photographing different subjects...