Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has been some striking speculation that whales may have a language. Cetaceans have a highly developed sense of hearing that evolved--as did echolocution--to compensate for an inability to see underwater. The noises they make sound like clicks and whistles and meaningless barks to the human ear. However, some observers have noticed that whales put these sounds together in startling ways. Cummings and Philippi, who worked on the Navy's marine mammal research program, found that in the right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly...
...million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
Nonetheless, the criticism is at least partly justified: there is in fact no economic adviser who can consistently get the President's ear to set a clear policy line. Instead, Carter gets his primary business and economic intelligence from a tight inner circle of four men. In rough order of present prominence, they...
...despite their lack of statutory power, Princeton students have still succeeded in influencing university policy; adequate information and a receptive administrative ear have enabled them to convince administrators of the correctness of their positions...
...Carre knows it very well, indeed. The Honourable Schoolboy showcases le Carre in top writing form, recreating the steamy, fetid cities of Indochina and the chummy, gin-soaked air of a British club with genuine flair. Moreover, his marvelous ear for dialogue has developed an unprecedented sharpness: unlike the characters in his previous books, the Americans in The Honourable Schoolboy not only speak differently from the British, but each character boasts a subtle regional accent, as well. No one sounds like Perry Mason, either--which alone sets the book apart from a shelf-full of other British espionage tales...