Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a traditional prescription for its recapture, which consists in swinging the club to a waltz tune.... So away I went to a secret valley, a very muddy one in the season of rain, where no human eye could see my contortion nor human ear hearken to my carolings, and 'Gad, there I was,' as Jos Sedley once observed, 'singing away like--a robin...
GALLOWS HUMOR is a delicate thing. Any one who has loitered outside Mem Hall waiting for an exam to begin knows that feeling of disgust when the inevitable clown makes the usual jokes while you frantically try to remember just what in hell the War of Jenkins' Ear was. It's not the idea of comic relief that bothers you, it's those awful jokes. Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify...
...progressive jazz is more your thing the Yoshi Malta Quintet will be progressing at Pooh's Pub. Yoshi used to play with a group called "The Year of the Ear" Profound, eh? Progressive? For sure. This line-up at Pooh's however sounds as if it will be freer-ranging and producing more flavorful, nutritious musical eggs as a result. They'll be playing a lot of traditional jazz. Tuning tunes like Miles Davis' So What. Also playing some Sonny Rollins. That enough? They'll continue with original composition and some "straight-ahead" jazz. Whatever the latter...
TIME correspondents move around as often as diplomats; the average tour of duty in any one bureau is about three years. The reason: to bring a fresh eye and newly tuned ear to their reporting. In the past few months a full dozen of them have switched locale and sometimes climate, language and hemisphere as well. David Aikman probably faces the stiffest challenge at the moment -establishing a new Eastern European bureau in a 100-year-old farmhouse in West Berlin. He calls it "a forced learning process in the simultaneous skills of driver, messenger, clerk, telex operator and office...
...popular now and others, such as dropout, are no longer common usage." Senior Correspondent James Bell, who joined TIME in 1942 and has served in 14 different bureaus, is also busy getting used to a linguistic shift although he has only moved from Atlanta to Boston. "Retuning the ear from Billy Carter to Ted Kennedy is not easy. As George Wallace says, they speak funny up here...