Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accent on Form. From Babbitt, to The Grapes of Wrath, to The Naked and the Dead, a generation of talented but angry men has been bending the ear of U.S. readers, almost suggesting that thinking men should secede from the U.S. Wouk is not an angry man. But there is more than artless optimism or patriotism beneath the surface of his stories. Wouk denies taking stands for or against anything, but the evidence of the books contradicts him. There is an indictment in The Caine Mutiny-not, ultimately, of Queeg, the maniacal martinet, but of Keefer, the phony intellectual. There...
Another Slice of Pizza. In Hoboken, in a coldwater flat ("one can to four families"). Frank was born on Dec. 12, 1915. He weighed 13½ lbs. at birth, and in the delivery his head was badly ripped by the forceps, and one of his ear lobes was torn away; he carries the scars to this day. The doctor laid the unbreathing baby on the bed. thinking him stillborn, and turned to save the mother. Frank survived because his grandmother snatched him up and put him under the cold-water faucet...
...more of the surrealist ambiguity of Thomson's later style. William Schuman's five piano pieces called Voyage (played by Beveridge Webster) include two that find the composer more absorbed in the web of his ponderous sonorities than a listener ever could be; other movements titillate the ear with a kind of hectic animation...
...start a music festival!" is a cocktail-party phrase that carries some of the same heady excitement that "Let's start a magazine!" did a generation ago. In 1953, Jascha Rushkin, a violinist with Toscanini's NBC Symphony, whispered the words into the ear of Metropolitan Opera Baritone John Brownlee. In time, facts were added: 1) some three-quarter million people visit New York's Catskill Mountains every summer; 2) a Catskills civic association pledged to buy $100,000 worth of tickets for a five-week festival; 3) the former NBC Symphony, now famed as the Symphony...
...Series fever. Years of frustration curdle his spleen; choleric misanthropy consumes him. The cure is drastic: he must spend an afternoon in the Polo Grounds bleachers snarling his defiance at the civilized world-pleading with a succession of Giant pitchers to skull a batter and "stick it in his ear," begging every Giant base runner to spike an infielder and" chop his legs off." So it was on Sept. 29, 1954. Hano began the day by snapping at his wife. He spent the early morning standing in line waiting to buy a ticket to the bleachers...