Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complaint grows mightily with numbers. The burgeoning consumer organizations have discovered that millions of Americans want desperately to complain, but have kept silent out of either fear of rebuff or a sense of futility. The organizations have given the citizen the happy feeling that he has found a sympathetic ear and also relieved him of the awkward burden of having to make himself individually conspicuous...
Sometimes surrealistically. He spoke of the modern artist who tried to cut off his ear with an electric razor, the Eskimo crooner who sang Night and Day for six months at a time-and the twelve fugitives from a chain gang who escaped by posing as an immense charm bracelet...
...reconcile this Caesar with the one who, Cassius tells us, ran out of steam while swimming in the Tiber. Although Caesar has recently returned from military victories. I prefer a Caesar who is slightly over the hill, who is clearly showing signs of weakness (like the deal left ear he himself mentions...
Died. Dr. Georg von Bekesy, 73, Hungarian-born physicist and winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in medicine for his research on the human ear; of cancer; in Honolulu. Von Bekesy was a scientist employed by a Budapest telephone laboratory when he began his research into the physiological aspects of hearing during the '20s. Over the next four decades his equipment and techniques-he once glued tiny mirrors onto an eardrum to observe its response to varied sounds-helped in the diagnosis of hearing disorders...
...political meeting, or in the bedroom of a married-or unmarried couple. The tape is fed into a machine that measures muscular micro-tremors in the voice, faint quivers that come from the muscles in the voice box and cause slight changes in pitch. Changes are not detectable by ear, but they can be traced on a chart by a pen linked to the machine. It is the capacity to detect and reproduce these tremors-apparently produced by the freely undulating throat muscles of a relaxed speaker-that gives the P.S.E. its awesome powers. For the throat muscles...