Word: ear
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...musician were skimpy. In 1962, though, he wrote the music as well as the words for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which Prince was persuaded to produce. Composer Sondheim has often been accused of writing dissonances that deliberately elude the listener's ear. But for that show he created a host of thumpingly singable tunes to match the simple-minded hilarity. Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, Comedy Tonight and Lovely could have been hummed by a stone. With Forum, Sondheim finally proved that he, like Noel Coward, could indeed go it alone...
Clubs and Chains. The militants got a sympathetic ear last July when the election of Newark's new black mayor Kenneth Gibson gave the school board its first majority of blacks and Puerto Ricans. When negotiations on a new teachers' contract began in January, the board balked at renewing the arbitration clause, hoping to strengthen its educational control. The union struck...
...Assistant Roger E. Johnson, a discreet businessman whose job is to act as liaison between Nixon and his old friends. "Some friends," says Johnson, "have been advised that if they have a problem-or just want to talk-to call me. Their problems will reach his [Nixon's] ear." For such service, Johnson earns around...
...Vanguard is like trying to wedge the master singers of Nuremberg into Rodolfo's garret hole in Paris. The jam requires the four trumpeters to stand against the rear wall all night long. If he is not careful, a sax player can easily get a shot in the ear from a sliding trombone...
...must give a name to Le Clézio's disease, perhaps semantic aphasia will do. Semantic aphasia is that numbness of ear, mind and heart-that tone deafness to the very meaning of language-which results from the habitual and prolonged abuse of words. As an isolated phenomenon, it can be amusing if not downright irritating. But when it becomes epidemic, it signals a disastrous decline in the skills of communication, to that mumbling low point where language does almost the opposite of what it was created for. With frightening perversity-the evidence mounts daily-words now seem...