Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not seem to affect The Misanthrope one way or the other, possibly because social mores remain remarkably constant. One may demur at Adapter Tony Harrison's decision to render the entire play in rhyming couplets. While these are agile and clever, they are somewhat distracting to an ear attuned to English prose in the theater. A hint of Gilbert and Sullivan enters the playgoer's mind and lightens what should essentially be a dark comedy. Leaving that aside, the redcoats have come with another triumph to their Broadway beachhead . ∙ T.E.K...
...look back at them after fifteen years and see that shapes that fleshed out much of your consciousness when a glimmer of the world first stirred. The Stooges are pure slapstick--they pound each other and never draw blood, they communicate with a cuff and a twist of the ear, they love each other as they fight, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. Getting up from the TV floors when you're five years old and trying to bash your sister with tiny hands is no killer instinct. It just made a vulnerable kid feel assertive...
...what was going on at the time and for what I had to work with, there were no black musicians out there who wanted to play--at all. I felt terribly upset about that. But I just wanted to play music that was pleasing to the ear. That was the whole thing. You know, there's some who'll say. 'Well here we are, white playing in black, or here we are black, but we play so white.' And I just say, 'Why don't you just play some music, please, instead of saying who's the blackest...
Death Plucks my ear and says...
...alumnus who has heard Karl Strauch, professor of Physics and committee chairman, give his standard "the-time-has-come-for-gradual-change" spiel; any faculty member or administrator with an ear to the ground; or any student who reads. The Crimson was prepared long ago for the committee recommendations...