Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main idea I was toying with was to be a music major and a pre-med." Her freshman year she took Music 51, the general theory course for music concentrators, from F. John Adams. It turned out to be "pretty much of a bomb." "Adams has a fantastic ear, he can hear anything," but he was impatient with students who did not have the same ability. The course covered too much material too quickly and was more frustrating than inspiring. Enjoyment and appreciation of music were subordinate to scholarship and "after that I had no desire to have anything...
...grandsons, or to shoot a round of golf with one of his sons-in-law. Twenty or more years ago he started painting pictures by numbers and has progressed from primitive oils, reminiscent of bad Grandma Moses, to wild impressionism. Meany also taught himself to play the piano by ear and now has a console organ in his home. At night, passersby can sometimes hear him beating out Dixieland jazz and old Irish ballads. After three martinis, a solid meal and a good cigar, Meany may break into song, if the company is congenial. Galway Bay is the likely choice...
Ford's professor, in fact, professes no particular ideology, though he is a Republican, and chooses not to whisper his own views into the President's ear. "The cause I push is a kind of elevated common sense," he says. Goldwin prefers to act as distiller and conveyor of the ideas of others. He has good credentials for that role. A native New Yorker who fought with the U.S. Cavalry in World War II, Goldwin graduated in 1950 from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He spent the next nine years editing reading materials and training...
...years later, Joe Stefani is going on 81 years old and is in his 39th year as business agent of Local 186. He is a thickset man with a rasping voice and a hearing aid tucked behind his ear. Things aren't going so well for Stefani these days. He has a hard time getting people to come to union meetings--they say the neighborhood of the union hall is unsafe at night--but 30 years ago the meetings were jammed, while the union was coming into its own. There were even classes for shop stewards--Stefani has faded photographs...
Chief Justice Warren Burger, outgoing Attorney General William Saxbe and current A.B. A. President James Fellers have all urged Congress to raise the salaries as well as the number of judges. But recession-laden legislators are likely to turn a deaf ear. It may be that the judges' only recourse is a semi-serious ploy proposed by one of them during last week's meeting. Citing the Constitution's command that a judge's pay "shall not be diminished," he suggested suing, arguing that failure to give cost-of-living increases amounted to such...