Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, Smith says he'll just play it by ear, convinced that the nature of his calling will somehow reveal itself "St. Francis changed the whole world," Smith points out, "and all he tried to do was fix a church...
...will play it by ear. But he will not allow the chips to fall as they may. Hamlin belongs in the tradition of the self-made. And Harvard has proved an appropriate milieu for a proud ex-Marine. He has dissolved the tension between "We" and "Me" by choosing the latter, without hesitation or prevarication. Yet he maintains a fundamental unselfishness and deep loyalty to those who have helped...
...point: Brustein the theater director and English professor at Harvard would naturally feel more responsibility towards undergraduates than Brustein the graduate dean at Yale. So far, in his new post. Brustein has apparently assured most of the student theater community that he has an open door and a willing ear...
...beginning to wax eloquent on the "granitic formations" that absorb moisture and the "confluence of three rivers" that cool the air when a journalist for the newsweekly Le Point whispered "fifty-two to forty-eight" in his ear. Without any noticeable change of expression or vocal inflection, he continued his explanations of cloud formations...
Lectures to teen-agers on the harmful effects of cigarettes most often go in one ear and out the other. So to plug their antismoking message, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided on a role model: Actress Brooke Shields, 15 (Pretty Baby, Blue Lagoon and the soon-to-be-released Endless Love). But before Brooke had a chance to give her peers a puffless primer, the proposed $68,000 federal campaign was extinguished. Said HHS Chief of Staff David Newhall III: "I did not have sufficient confidence that the majority of smokers would be discouraged." The announcement...