Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria Callas as Tosca is the final straw. As one who was present at this dull performance, I can testify that Callas looked like Audrey Hepburn, acted respectably and sang like a member of a second-rate road company. Your music critic either has low standards or a tin ear...
...Washington National Airport this week, an ear-tingling ig-gun salute heralded the arrival of the man who fitfully straddles the chasm between the Soviet's open cynicism and the Western world's open hand. Jawaharlal Nehru, idolized leader of India's millions and to many minds the spokesman for the yearnings (as well as fiery passions) of most Asians and Africans, had come at Dwight Eisenbower's invitation for his first visit to the U.S. since...
From a detailed study of the mechanical physiology of the inner ear to the construction of "teaching machines" for future education, these men investigate the still-unsolved problems of human and animal behavior, learning, and motivation. For laboratory work is as vital to the advanced study of psychology as it is to the study of any other of the natural sciences. Through the study of animals, as well as mental patients and normal people, psychologists hope to gain insight into the mental processes which govern human behavior and activity...
...Psycho-Acoustic section of the Psychological Laboratories, Georg von Bekesy, research fellow in Psycho-physics, is carrying on a unique investigation of the mechanical physiology of the inner ear. His extremely delicate experiments include the measurement of the pressure changes and electrical effects within the interior structure of the ear...
Rozsa: Violin Concerto (Jascha Heifetz; Dallas Symphony conducted by Walter Hendl; Victor). Miklos Rozsa, best known as a movie composer (Spellbound, A Double Life), writes music that is recognizably Hungarian-after Bartok and Kodaly made the style familiar-and also, by some strange chemistry of the ear, Hollywoodian. Its message is easygoing, its orchestration competently conservative. The concerto was written for Heifetz, who helped out with parts of it, and who plays it as if he had written...