Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's Ear...
...many other Jordanians despise the obese Sherif Nasser, who became rich enough from smuggling guns and hashish to build a $900,000 palace for himself and his young second wife. Mainly, however, the fedayeen feared that Sherif Nasser was using his relationship and access to the King's ear to provoke a showdown with them. They were almost surely right. Sherif Nasser apparently feared that the guerrillas were rapidly growing strong enough to topple Hussein, and he proposed that they be stopped. Together he and Hussein started visiting army camps two months ago to reinforce loyalty to the King...
Things to Come. In truth, Tommy is a creation likely to cause a certain perplexity in the mind as well as in the middle ear. Thematically it is a parable about a boy who grows deaf, dumb and blind after watching his father kill his mother's lover. Because of his exceptional sense of touch, however, he becomes a pinball champion. Later, miraculously cured, he becomes a pinball messiah and finally the leader of a quasi-religious state. When he insists that his followers play pinball with their mouths gagged, their eyes blindfolded, their ears plugged with stoppers...
...fashioned sense of the word. d;sinterest-ed view. More than any other novelist, he is proof that to become a significant writer, a man must be neither an idea machine nor a recording angel, but a human voice sounding with its own shifting intonations in the ear and heart of the reader. Describing the peculiar discrepancy between apparent message and feeling in Forster's novels, Lionel Trilling observed: " 'Wash ye, make yourselves clean,' says the plot, and the manner murmurs, 'If you can find the soap...
...rest of the world envied the British "for our tolerance, for our individual liberty, for our stability" when-splat!-a young Conservative hit him with an egg. At other rallies, the Prime Minister caught a soft-boiled egg on his shoulder and a hard-boiled egg on his ear, and his wife Mary was hit by a bag of talcum powder. So it went, as Britain plunged into a three-week national election campaign...