Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a clubhouse cliche that the rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) blond with the sweet swing had all the moves but none of the grit, cool or concentration of a true star. "We worry about Tom a lot," said one tour veteran. "We wonder if you looked in his ear whether you'd see daylight or cartoons or something...
...point, Defendant G. Gordon Liddy's lawyer, Peter Maroulis, stood to offer an objection, but Liddy waved him down and whispered in his ear. Said Sirica sarcastically: "I see you're getting some good legal advice from your client, the former attorney." Maroulis again bounded to his feet at this implication that Liddy had already been disbarred. Sirica dismissed him brusquely: "All right, he's still a lawyer admitted to the bar, I'll grant you. Now let's get on with...
Chausson: Poem of Love and the Sea; Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (Soprano Victoria de los Angeles; Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat conductor; Angel, $5.98). A vocal record to cherish, with De los Angeles, now 49, as ear-ravishing as ever. By the standard of the classic Madeline Grey Auvergne recording (1930), this version is a shade operatic, but in its own opulent way nonetheless irresistible. The Chausson, delicately contrasting the ephemera of love with the eternity of the sea, is a pre-Impressionistic gem, hauntingly burnished by De los Angeles, rapturously accompanied by Conductor Jacquillat...
Wilson's was an estimable demonstration of adversarial skills. But there was considerably less in this argument than met the ear. "Most dubious," said Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago, adding that the Wilson thesis amounts to a "wildcat discretion incompatible with the intentions of the Constitution." Berkeley's Sanford Kadish emphatically agreed: "That kind of thinking comes from the medieval doctrine that the king can do no wrong...
Donoso has a lethally accurate ear for the cadences of Chilean people: aging, pious servants, provincials transplanted in the capital, the crumbling aristocracy. The elusive Iné is a perfect portrait of a working-class Santiago teenager. Along with legends and local lore, there is a great deal of fashionable literary rhetoric that unfortunately tends to make the author's truly bizarre creations more commonplace. When the didact in Donoso pushes the storyteller aside, the book comes perilously close to pomposity...