Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great laughter like he didn't get the joke. He waggles his head as Gromyko whispers into his ear; then still grinning, at me he turns to shake hands with some exotically garbed potentate. The crush around me lessens. The press ignores me. Me and Khrushchev's talk is over...
...verse by Sir Walter Raleigh, late professor of English literature at Oxford, live very close to their neighbors, and thus tend to have a depressingly low view of their character, morals and appearance. Angus Wilson, England's cleverest postwar storyteller, succeeds like a gifted gossip in holding the ear of an audience which may deplore the scandalmonger but is entranced by his narrative...
Science & Baseball. There is one underlying reason, in Edward Teller's view, for both the neglect of science education and the lack of appreciation for pure research: "A tone deafness toward science in our .society at large." If the public had an ear for science, then the taxpayers would be more willing to support pure research and science education, and more schoolchildren would get interested in science. Like many gifted scientists, Teller believes there is no special inborn talent for science, feels that talent is basically intense interest. The way to produce future scientists is to get them interested...
...develop an ear for science in the public, Teller advocates "science-appreciation" programs for both children and adults. "Baseball could not flourish without fans," he says, "but where are the science fans...
...station's strongest pitch is not to the ear but the heart. During its 4 a.m.-to-midnight schedule, it airs hundreds of distress calls, ranging from alarms for lost children to pleas for blood donors. As a tracer of missing persons, it puts radio's fictional Mr. Keen to shame, has a stringer system all over the South to help in tracking them down. Last year WDIA gave baseball uniforms and equipment to 650 boys, is now raising funds for an orphanage...