Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only practical way to get such knowledge from the printed page into the brain of a blind man is through his ear (Braille is hopelessly slow to read, expensive and bulky to produce). Luckily, any blind college student, professional man or businessman in the U.S. can have the textbooks he is studying read aloud to him, and free at that. Recording for the Blind, Inc., a nonprofit group of 32 staffers and 2,400 dedicated volunteers, will put any educational book on 7-in., 16⅔-r.p.m. vinylite discs and send it out to whoever needs...
...aptly titled Aeon, a blinding flash of magnesium flares stirred Cunningham's ten-member troupe into an otherworldly, slow-motion ballet. In the orchestra pit, Conductor Cage slowly raised and lowered his arms like a railroad signal, while his two-man orchestra conjured a percussive nightmare with such ear-splitting accents as a nail file rasped across a metal music stand. When the sound system shorted and buzzed harshly for several minutes, the audience accepted it as part of the show...
What were those noises emanating from the upper right-hand corner of Africa last week? To the aligned, non-African ear, they sounded suspiciously like selfcriticism. The chiefs of state, gathered in Cairo for the second annual summit of the Organization of African Unity, laid their doubts on the line in a manner that would have done credit to a convention of devil's advocates...
...leading bossa nova composer, who also backs up the lead duo with sensitive piano playing. The result is an eloquent sermon on what the bossa nova was originally all about. The relaxed, almost flat vocal styling of Joāo sounds as if he were whispering in your ear, and it is exquisitely embroidered by the ethereal solos of Getz's lyrical tenor...
...NOISE. Electronic racket raisers, says the colonel, "will project high-intensity, variable-pitch sounds, blatting, shrieking noises, etc., in such volume that they will be almost intolerable to the human ear." Another promising device: "A revolving, car-roof-mounted, flashing spotlight of such brilliance that it will temporarily affect the vision of rioters...