Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language that began by merging the sounds of many tongues, brought together in the struggle of diverse regions. And whether it is admitted or not, much of the sound of that language is derived from the timbre of the African voice and the listening habits of the African ear. So there is a de'z and do'z of slave speech sounding beneath our most polished Harvard accents, and if there is such a thing as a Yale accent, there is a Negro wail in it-doubtlessly introduced there by Old Yalie John C. Calhoun, who probably...
That was the scene one recent evening at Slug's in Greenwich Village East. The curious and compelling cacophony was being raised by what is known in jazz as "the New Thing." Listening to it can stir confusions in the ear and mind. Is it jazz at all? Is it hate music, love music, both or neither? Or is it perhaps a deliberate attempt to antagonize the listener? The answers to those questions largely depend on what the listener's most cherished notions of jazz happen...
...make sure that she did it. In fact, says Egeberg, more than 20% of nonwhite children have failed to get the standard shots against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (a combination "DTP" vaccine), while 91.4% of all white children have had them. A boy is deaf in one ear because his mother could not take him to the clinic for a second treatment of a common ear infection; to make the first visit, she had to take her five children on two different buses to a distant clinic, where she waited all day for a doctor...
Girl snuffled and Merilee reached over the edge of the bathtub and found her velvet ear, the one with the chunk gone, and stroked it. The keeds had wanted to come in the water with them, but Sam had disallowed the: and Merilee felt badly for Girl...
...long ago never to shout or be shouted at again. Once more she envisioned the lovely gown, but it was behind glass now and its story did not move. The beads had died. She thought she heard Sam threatening to leave her and she touched Girl's ragged left ear for luck and strength. Velvet ear of Girl...