Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...china doll's. But the lobby was packed tight with squealing children and shushing mothers. How to get through? The wide eyes narrowed, the pointed chin shot forward, and daddy's darling charged. "Hey!" a five-year-old hollered as he pulled her elbow out of his ear. "Who do you think you are?" The little girl drew herself up. "I," she announced in a powerful voice, "am the leading lady!" The crowd fell back, an aisle was made, and down it the six-year-old diva swept grandly to her dressing room...
...Pentagon briefings and high-level policy discussions, has gathered a staff, settled down to do what Ike asked him to do, i.e., help whip the budget into shape, broaden basic research, improve scientific education. He shies away from issuing orders, saves his advice for the President's ear, has already used this influence to fan in the President a more informed interest in scientific projects. Said a White House aide last week: "Science has never before been given that kind of attention at that level." ¶Ohio Republicans, who thought things would start going their way once they...
...Saddle. The Communists would hate to see him leave at this critical moment. In recent months, Communist Boss D. N. Aidit has increasingly had Sukarno's ear; politically, Sukarno has become increasingly dependent on the Reds as his earlier supporters became disillusioned. But even before Sukarno left the country, General Nasution, who participated in an abortive anti-Sukarno coup in 1952, was moving like a man firmly in the saddle. Backed by Premier Djuanda and most other Indonesian moderates of all parties, he ordered all worker seizures of Dutch properties to stop immediately. All army leaves were canceled, troops...
...calm and cloistered air of 19th century New England, the Sage of Concord tuned his inner ear to the faint, sweet sounds that issued from his Transcendental trees and rocks. If he could hear sky-born music wherever he went, his friends and neighbors were less fortunate; they had to depend on the uncertain efforts of a handful of local groups, supplemented by occasional trips to Boston. In null century Concord, New Englanders do not find themselves so hampered-and Emerson would scarcely be left in peace to do his ethereal listening. Today's American, let him go where...
...explosion of painting in Renaissance Italy marked an "awakening of the eye," the explosion of music in post-World War II America suggests a massive unstopping of the U.S. ear. "Americans have discovered music," says Music Merchant André Kostelanetz, "like a people who have discovered red and blue and green where all had been black and white before." In its musical black-and-white era, the U.S. already had great symphony orchestras, great opera, great foreign artists-and it conquered the world with its jazz. What is different today is the extraordinary breadth of the nation's music...