Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taught to use one brain hemisphere or the other at will. EEG electrodes applied to both sides of the scalp pick up the subject's alpha waves (brain rhythms of a person awake but relaxed). These are electronically converted into sounds, which are fed into each ear. The effect, says Ornstein, "is to allow the person to hear tones varying with the activity of each hemisphere." The subject can then attempt to concentrate with one hemisphere and test his success by the relative volume of tones he hears. Thus Ornstein is testing one of his theses: that the practices...
...heartening is to note the progress from the horrendous mishmash that Jack Landau inflicted on us here in 1960 to Frank Hauser's version six years later, which was' visually attractive but aurally offensive. Now, on the third try, there is much to please both the eye and the ear...
...World Champion Joe Frazier, his wife Charlie weighed in with comments on their married life for NBC's Today show. "We have a two-week curfew," explained the blonde former Miss Indiana. "Gil Clancy, Jerry's manager, is in the room right next to us, and his ear is glued to the wall. If there's a cough in the middle of the night, Gil says, 'What are you doing in there?' " Getting Jerry alone has not been easy. The Quarrys. married in August, just two days before a fight. Since then Jerry...
...ever mixed with a San Francisco psychedelic-style concert crowd is likely to forget the experience. Going to see the Boz Scaggs, Grace Slick or Hot Tuna? Better take ear muffs and a flak jacket. Psychedelic rock crowds can be hostile collections of spacy Viet-vets still suffering from post-Viet Nam syndrome, pimply feminists in granny glasses and young high school dropouts. Bottles and firecrackers spin through the air. At a Grateful Dead concert, usually a four-or five-hour affair, the typical freak is a blend of drug hunger, male lonerism and musical knowledgeability. He will attend somnolently...
...Nixon seems more and more like a sow's ear that is trying very hard to look like a silk purse and not doing too well...