Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensed a profound change-or perhaps a crystallization of previous changes-in President Eisenhower since the campaign began. Said one of them last week: "The President seems to have reached a new plane of serenity, almost of self-detachment." Four years in the White House have sharpened his political ear, toughened his belief in himself as a political strategist. But along with this has come a new warmth and understanding. Gone are the occasional flashes of temper that were once the terror of his staff-and of his opponents. They have been replaced by an equanimity and inner ease that...
...given ear to Thy word...
...ruling group emphasizes "rational planning" in its propaganda, but it often "plays by ear" and muddles...
...discharged." The film captures the fierce drive and bitter tragedy in the life of Van Gogh, who completed more than 800 paintings in his 37 years, sold only two, and lived on handouts from his brother. But because the Hollywood story builds relentlessly to Van Gogh's ear-slicing for its climax. Lust for Life falls midway between being a first-rate art film and high-pitched melodrama...
...when Authoress Metalious is not all flustered by sex, she captures a real sense of the tempo, texture and tensions in the social anatomy of a small town. Her ear for local speech is unflinching down to the last four-letter word, and her characters have a sort of rawboned vitality that may produce low animal moans in many a critic's throat...