Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FOLLIES. Apart from being dazzlingly lovely, this musical is wise in heart. Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics beguile the ear while seducing the mind, and the Corybantic ardor of Michael Bennett's dancers is a sight for glad eyes...
Senator Edward Kennedy declared that the Administration had turned a deaf ear for eight months to "the brutal and systematic repression of East Bengal by the Pakistani army," and now was condemning "the response of India toward an increasingly desperate situation on its eastern borders." Senators Edmund Muskie and Hubert Humphrey echoed Kennedy's charges...
...found beyond the solar system. In 1968, a team of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley pointed a radio telescope toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the island of stars in which the sun is located. To their great satisfaction, the big electronic ear picked up emissions that could only be given off by ammonia molecules (bombarded by radiation, molecules emit characteristic signals that can be used like fingerprints for identification). For the first time, complete, chemically stable molecules had been found in the swirling clouds of gases that occupy the enormous spaces between the stars...
...stoic, silent savage has even greater circulation. As much as the black is an invisible man in a nation that prides itself on seeing what is best for others, the Indian is an unheard one, muted by misrepresentation and myth, in a country that claims to have a special ear for the untutored eloquent. As Dee Brown puts it in the introduction, "Only occasionally was the voice of the Indian heard, and then more often than not it was recorded by the pen of the white man. The Indian was the dark menace of the myths, and even...
...successful trek is a bit diluted by some of the shows he sees. Still, he cannot abandon the belief that theater "is the noblest of arts, a metaphysical ritual, an unbound volume of erotica, a childlike festival of clowns and kings, a never-surfeiting banquet for the eye, the ear and at times the soul...