Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blushed when he was paid a polite compliment. The French language, which is made for oratory, in his speeches sounded plain and calm. His favorite cartoon character was Ferdinand the Bull. In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music." He was a part of the sturdy old antediluvian France...
...latest composition of Russia's great Composer Sergei Prokofiev was published in Moscow last week. To the tin ear of Soviet officialdom, it was back on the Russian scale, but to Western ears, it was the most dissonant thing he had ever written. It was a letter of penitent thanks to the party for "the assistance which it is giving me to correct my mistakes" (TIME, Feb. 23). Wrote he: "The committee decision separates the gold from the dross in the composer's work. However painful this may be for a number of composers, including myself, I welcome...
...Washington, all this drum-beating caught the ear of George Middleton, aging (67) ex-dramatist (Polly with a Past), now a copyright expert in the Office of Alien Property. Middleton began asking Doubleday questions: Who had found the diaries and brought them to the U.S.? And why hadn't they been turned over to OAP as Government property...
...Deceptive Ear. In the current Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Dr. James P. Egan of the University of Wisconsin describes what happens when different sounds enter left & right ears. He put headsets on eight "naive subjects" (not aware of the purpose of the experiment). Through one earphone came a recorded voice. Through the other came a sound like the hiss of steam. When the hiss was moderately loud, it made the speech sound louder, "as if the talker raises his voice in order to make himself heard above the noise...
...three years as president, Philip Wernette increased enrollments from 924 to 4,491 students, brought more top scholars to the pueblo-style campus than any president before him. He streamlined the administration ("Without a system, you're playing by ear"), opened a new law school and a new school of pharmacy, but to the university's politics-ridden Board of Regents he had also committed a multitude of political sins. He had once suspended three students in connection with a fraternity house fire. One of the students was the son of the state highway commissioner; the regents reinstated...