Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within Novelist O'Hara's chosen limits, there are to be found the expected narrative skill, and knowledge of a sort. The Gibbsville town assesser could not know more. O'Hara has a tape-recorder ear, a headwaiter's instinct for credit rating, and a preoccupation with different means of making love which, if supported by one of the great foundations, could put Dr. Kinsey right back among the gall wasps...
...sympathetic ear but not full satisfaction. U.S. Secretary Dulles said flatly that the West could never join in a Middle East arms race, and he warned Sharett that in such a competition, Israel, with its 1.7 million would reach its "absorption point" quicker than the Arabs, with their 50 million. In such a competition the Arabs might well find the cohesion they now lack, and might become increasingly dependent on the Russians. In this view the Big Three foreign ministers were unanimous. Successively they reaffirmed to Sharett the 1950 guarantee by which the U.S., Britain and France promise...
Britain had promised to double its contribution (to nearly $20 million). Hollister had news even more pleasing to the Asian ear. Proposing that the Colombo powers set up an atomic energy research and training center, he announced that the U.S. is ready to give a nuclear research reactor and, later, a nuclear power reactor. Said one Asian delegate: "For more than a decade, Asians have looked to the atom as a symbol of terror. Now, perhaps, it may become for us a symbol of hope...
...that he frequently says what he thinks is clever instead of saying what he means. The method works fairly well in blazer farce and weekend melodrama, but when it comes to hearing the human heartbeat of a situation, Rattigan might as well be hunting uranium with an ear trumpet. Moreover, in The Deep Blue Sea, the leading lady does little to help. The part is scored, though crudely, for the full cello notes of womanly anguish; Vivien plays it in the thin pizzicato of girlish petulance...
...Stockdale, an incorrigibly good-natured young hillbilly who is inducted into the U.S. Air Force. Will puts his foot in his mouth as nonchalantly as though it were his pipe; he triumphs over every crisis by never knowing he is in one; he stands the Air Force on its ear by looking everyone guilelessly in the eye. So backwoods as not to know that a sergeant is a recruit's natural enemy, Will all but kills his own sergeant with kindness. He all but gives the Air Force psychiatrist ulcers through his unshatterable normality. In time he sets forth...