Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poem in the Advocate collection stands out as a bright example of intention happily wedded to execution: Jean Boudin's "Checkers." On one level it is a word-game played in nonsense verse with a vivaciously comic sense for awkward syntax and incongruous internal rhyme. Boudin writes for the ear at least as well as she writes for the eye. And her sense of nonsense saves the radical political themes of the poem from didacticism. An attempt at high seriousness would blunt the sting of the poem's political barbs, but irreverence sharpens them with a fitting context. A poet...
...very conservative"; he then added that it is "not subject to negotiations or trading." At one point, he asked the Europeans what they were prepared to do in order to get the U.S. to drop its 10% surcharge on foreign imports, then theatrically cupped his hand to his ear and announced: "I don't hear any suggestions." When France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing asked a series of moderately worded questions about the U.S. view of the role of gold in the international monetary system, Connally replied: "I am not prepared to give an answer to those...
...finds himself curiously unable to finish the book. Like that of his own fictional character, Lesser's isolated life bucks the very love he is trying to imagine on paper. Holed up in his self-made prison, he writes, munches apples and turns a deaf ear to Levenspiel, the landlord who wants to get him out so the structure can be replaced by a new six-story apartment building. Lesser is the last tenant, a holdout protected from eviction by a maze of city regulations. Using the world's red tape to keep the world...
Ironically, the one institutional question left unanswered by opening night was how the opera house sounded. As proved by the $3,000,000 already spent to improve Philharmonic Hall at New York City's Lincoln Center, acoustics can involve the pocketbook as much as the ear. Mass proved nothing about the opera house, since Bernstein relied heavily on amplification-body mikes for most of the soloists, hand mikes for the rock singer, floor mikes to pick up the dialogue. But as the week rolled on, it became apparent that the Kennedy Center sounded infinitely better than it looked...
...Shultz still had Nixon's ear. With Nixon's express approval, he proclaimed in April that no changes were contemplated in the Administration's approach. "Steady as she goes" was the watchword, said Shultz...