Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs. The President himself is almost always in the forefront of the persuaders. He is intimately aware of the progress of each bill, is posted on how each committee stands. Frequently, after a White House ceremony, he will gently guide a Congressman out of the crowd, whisper in his ear: "Now I want you to get interested in this . . ." It is astounding how often that particular Congressman gets interested...
...reminiscences, With Strings Attached, go further into the problems of these relations. What discourages him most about American audiences is that "they allow themselves to be led, and then listen with only half an ear." While a significant minority has advanced beyond listening to music passively, the majority, has not. To this minority, and away from the "dicta" of concert management, Szigeti has turned. Although he wants to slow the pace of his adventures, he performs gladly for colleges, museums, and music groups. He will soon play the Beethoven concerto in Athens, and then serve as a judge...
...organ music. Still, by the time he was 35, Morton had learned all too well that there was some music he could tolerate-and some he could not. Loud, fast songs-college marches, the 1812 Overture, New Orleans jazz, rock 'n' roll-went, in effect, in one ear and out the other. They left him unmoved. On the other hand, the soft, sweet rhythms of Stardust, Deep Purple or Abide With Me gave Morton frightening seizures. He would stare vacantly, twitch, turn his head to the left, make smacking sounds with his lips, utter growling noises and sometimes...
Seized by Carols. Working with a team of acoustical engineers, Wisconsin's Dr. Francis M. Forster and his colleagues determined just what songs, just what instruments, just what rhythms caused Morton to have an epileptic seizure. Hooked up to an electroencephalograph, their patient listened to music with one ear, with the other, and then with both. He listened to a random noise generator with one ear while music was piped to the other. Stardust played on the organ produced no abnormalities; Glenn Miller's orchestrated version touched off fits. Hymns and Christmas carols played by an orchestra...
...Yankee painter in Paris, Dick Van Dyke wonders why his canvases don't sell. "What do I have to do-cut off an ear?" he groans. His best friend, an unpublished and unprincipled writer, James Garner, suggests that a dead artist sells better than a live...