Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a few years in Washington, most politicians can detect the faint hiss of escaping gossip the way bird dogs can hear whistles pitched too high for the human ear. Last week, as Harry Truman set out on his 17-day tour of the West, hundreds of the initiated swore they could hear tongues wagging across the capital in salvos like a 21-gun salute. The reason: three days before starting out, the President had notified Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath (who had planned the trip) that he and his professional politicos could not come along...
...reason the test is worthless : unlike Humpty Dumpty who shouted right in his friend's ear (see cut), testers instinctively lower their voices when they approach a subject. Other reasons: testers' voices vary; other sounds in usual testing rooms make a big difference but are ignored in figuring a man's hearing; because of the way the human ear works, the tester's voice does not sound significantly louder until he is within ten feet...
...huge and exciting novel about "shamed and sunken France." World Without Visa is a novel on the grand scale, packed with enough action to fill a dozen less ambitious books, bursting with dramatic and melodramatic climaxes, written and overwritten from a gnawing sense of social urgency - a desperate, ear-splitting wail of grief at what human life has become in the 20th Century. Niggling critics will find many faults in it, and the faults are there; but it is nonetheless a book that communicates, as no other has yet - far better than Arch of Triumph, for example - the feeling...
...Wrinkle" and "Balance Jew" (where lots were bought on deferred payments and it took a long time to pay the balance due). Cohn has spent time with Negroes, learned how they feel, collected their stories of "hoodoo" and "conjure" episodes, and listened to them closely. An example of his ear...
Late one night last week, as usual, the New York Times went to bed. But the 48-page Times that cascaded from one of the big presses was not at all as usual. The right-hand "ear" on Page 1 identified it as the "T.E.P." (for Temporary Emergency Project) Edition. A limited edition of a few hundred copies, it looked almost the same as the regular Times, except that the type was larger. But it was produced, without benefit of printers, by Vari-Type...