Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clamping Down. In Rotorua, New Zealand, Heslett Thompson, 22, lost his driving license for attacking a pedestrian who walked in front of his car, and biting off a piece of the man's ear...
...land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography of Cuba that is now a standard textbook in Cuban schools. Another force is Celia Sánchez,* Castro's onetime Girl Friday in the hills, who offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt for him and a maid to prepare his favorite fish-and-rice breakfast, is one of Castro's favorite ports of call in his hectic junketing about Havana...
Contributions may be made by checks marked for a future date, if necessary, the chairmen explained. In addition, checks this year may be made directly to the recommended or suggested charity which the donor chooses to support. Contributions may also be ear-marked for any charity not on the official list or may be made without restrictions...
Some of his musical maturity Lorin gets from growing up with the sound of a violin in his ear: his father is a violinist, a former assistant concertmaster for Toscanini with the NBC Symphony. Lorin got his first violin when he was three ("I smashed it"), went on to the piano when he was five, and in his first day at the keyboard went through an entire book of beginner's exercises. By the time he was ten, Lorin was playing recitals, and he has been hard at it ever since. He scored his second big recital triumph last...
...what it juxtaposes and contrasts-chant and wisecrack, surrealism and photography, insanity and farce, demonology and Freud-The Tenth Man is telling and sharp. And Playwright Chayefsky has an equally good ear for the colloquial speech of his Jews as for their dialectical pomposities. But in spattering its theatrical vignettes with philosophic question marks, The Tenth Man takes on obligations it does not meet. Far from turning fantasy into vision, it fails to save it from sentimentality. Not only are all the play's characters uniformly nice, but exorcism seems a convenient miracle drug, and the happily vanishing young...