Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members' sexual habits. Bloomsbury, was, we know now, stranger than we could have imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism have all been the subject of recent studies. At the center of it all stands Virginia Woolf, whose sexuality threatens to become a serious literary question. Her nephew Quentin Bell, in his otherwise admirable biography, claimed...
...nation illustrates the bleak prospects so strikingly as India, which some what ironically has long been an ear nest champion of the Arabs' political cause. India's newest five-year plan, which calls for government and pri vate investment of $71 billion in industrialization, assumes that the price of oil will rise only to $4.75 per bbl. by 1979, the last year of the plan. In fact, the price already has shot up to $9 per bbl. Oil imports had been taking 10% to 11% of the foreign currency that India earns from exports; now the bill...
...Indonesia, Nigeria, Venezuela and several Arab states, have struck a bonanza. Indeed, they could now afford to help their underdeveloped brethren, by setting a lower price on oil exported to poor countries than on petroleum sold to industrialized lands. In the past, however, oil producers have turned a deaf ear to pleas that they organize such a two-price market. They have argued, probably correctly, that it would lead to a black market that would siphon off the low-priced fuel to the rich countries...
Others, too, are interested in solving that mystery. Robert Galambos, 59, a professor of neurosciences at the University of California at San Diego, is at tempting to track auditory impulses from the ear, through the brain stem and into the cortex. He is studying several brain-wave patterns, including what is called the "Aha wave," which the brain generates when it finds what it is looking...
...alchemy operated on the air waves. Sound effects entered the ear; a world rose in the mind, full of actors and sets to rival the most elaborate constructions of C.B. DeMille. It is doubtful if anything since the soothsayer at the campfire so gripped the collective human consciousness. It was no accident that ancient radios were often shaped like cathedrals. Listeners gathered round them with a concentration that bordered on worship. (In accordance with the nostalgia revival, those Gothic appliances are being remade, but now they are composed of plastic and run on transistors.) Oldtime daytime broadcasts were principally devoted...