Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Service Ears. Since no electioneering is permitted inside U.S. bases, both sides prowl around outside. In Italy, where there are an estimated 35,000 eligible voters, Goldwater subcommittees are in operation in Vicenza, Verona, Leghorn and Naples, near U.S. military sites. At British market towns outside U.S. bases, the Democrats have parked decorated carts equipped with loud speakers playing Hello, Lyndon, hoping to catch the ear of U.S. servicemen and their wives on shopping tours...
Mostel plays Tevye, a poor dairyman by trade and a Jewish cracker-barrel philosopher by bent. Tevye has five unmarried daughters on his hands, a strident wife (Maria Karnilova) at his elbow, and God's voice in his inner ear. He quivers before his wife and quips with his God. He plans to arrange his daughters' marriages in the time-honored way. They plead love. "Tradition," thunders Tevye, stabbing the air with an irate prophet's forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without...
...indisputably hell; so is madness. The problem remaining is merely the relatively simple one of eloquence. But this first novel has a force not completely due to its subject and a compassion wholly the author's own. It has drawbacks: the author, for one thing, has no ear for language. But her portraits of five women inmates of a mental institution touch deeper than the ear. Each of the women is observed at a different stage of madness. The first is seen in the few hours before her crackup, as she slips through her psychiatrist's fingers...
...Ear, Name & Number. First, of course, comes the matter of the nature of the leak. If it comes from a sink, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Buildings, if from a toilet (sewage), the Department of Health. If it is a leak that causes waste of water, it is the Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity. If the leak is outdoors, it is the Department of Sewers. The Fire Department is concerned with leaks occurring near electrical fixtures, and the Police Department if the leak comes from an adjoining apartment. The situation in New York, in fact...
...secretary (Columnist Max Lerner's daughter) and five telephones, Call for Action set up shop. Sparked by spot announcements over (naturally) WMCA assuring listeners that a phone call to the group would expedite a complaint, Call has handled complaints from nearly 15,000 natives suddenly afforded a sympathetic ear and, more important, the name and telephone number of the proper municipal authority to call. In addition to telephone guidance, Call for Action has assembled and published a neatly tabbed book listing 18 of the city's agencies, with a cross-index linking each problem with cause and solution...