Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALAN KAPROW dressed himself in black plastic, donned a World War I helmet, dubbed himself "The Neutron Kid," and set Southampton on its ear with a three-day Happening that included smoke bombs, sky divers and giant, helium-filled balloons. See MODERN LIVING...
...STENCH in the ear," wrote Ambrose Bierce, fulminating against noise in the long tradition of sensitive and thinking men. Marcel Proust was so fastidious about noise that he had his study lined with cork. Juvenal bemoaned the all-night cacophony of imperial Rome, observing that "most sick people perish for want of sleep." To Schopenhauer it was clear that "the amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure...
...these people could be as useful to the general public as to the colleagues who are now their only audience. As an example, Reston cites John Kenneth Galbraith, who has written a number of books on his experience as ambassador to India, but who failed to catch the ear of the nation because "he wasn't getting to the people when they are most attentive [when they read the newspaper]." If Galbraith had written an article syndicated for the major U.S. newspapers during the India-Pakistan crisis, he would have had a huge and attentive audience. To be able...
Color Test. The VA team went to work last Dec. 7. A sweeping cut through the scalp from behind the left ear to the crown, and then another to the forehead, exposed the skull. Next the surgeons sawed through the bone and lifted a big flap to expose the brain. Then, wielding an electric cautery, they spent one hour and 50 minutes cutting away the diseased hemisphere-from the neocortex, the control center for man's most civilized mental processes, down to the ancient part of the brain, where reflexive and instinctual functions are mediated. The surgeons put nothing...
...fluency in Spanish, are gradually recognizing her skill. She has 45 patients. There have been no "What do I do now?" calls to busy doctors, she says proudly, "but I have sent them a number of children as patients." Most such cases have involved deafness, from neglected middle-ear infections, and a variety of chest complaints...