Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn an agency like this on its ear overnight, even if it's needed, and I'm not convinced yet that wholesale change here is either necessary or desirable." So says L. Patrick Gray III after one month on the job as acting director of the FBI. Wholesale they may not be, but some changes have already been made in the post-Hoover era-largely for the better...
...away Gray let it be known that J. Edgar's rigid rules on agents' appearance were rescinded: "I've no hangup on white shirts," he says. As a result, mod shirts and ties are blossoming. Hair to the collar and sideburns to the bottom of the ear are now permitted. Gray has established a special division to recruit more black, Spanish-speaking and other minority-group agents. The new division will also hear agents' grievances, which should be a boon to bureau morale, and will help in the agency's pioneering recruitment of women agents...
...point Scott talked of the 1954 advance of the North Koreans across the 17th Parallel against the South Koreans. An aide leaned over and murmured something in his ear...
...course some of the connections are weak, and Kenner is not above a bit of crankery on his own. He often wears his learning like a lead flak jacket and, like Pound, can be pithy to the point of incomprehensibility. But he has a contagious gusto and a splendid ear: the fragments of Pound's poetry that litter his pages are altogether dazzling and rich, "an anthology of rightnesses." Kenner knows some good sto ries too. He has one small masterpiece about T.S. Eliot, during an impossibly British lunch, majestically bringing his famous critical faculties to bear upon...
...other hand, la group led by such men as Homer Martin, Sydney Hillman and Philip Murray thought that labor's fight was merely a struggle for power which could be best accomplished using already established channels. Hillman was FDR's labor lieutenant, always trying to catch the President's ear. He was forced on more than one occassion to order strikers back to work when FDR or business interests so pressured. In just such a conflict Mortimer was finally removed from leadership in the UAW because he sided with the strikers in the aircraft union he organized...