Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What commands in this work is its contribution to an understanding of the most sordid and emotional side of war and of the lives of the men who fight it. No American with a conscience, no American with an eye to the past and an ear to the future can ignore it. These fifty-three may not be full-grown Hemingways, Dos Passos, or Remarques, but in their simplicity and humanness they have reached points of literary clarity and feeling that are difficult to surpass...
Those horrible little imps who badger bewildered ball players were after Stan Musial. They lock-stepped up & down his bat and chanted in his ear: "You're in a slump . . . you're in a slump...
...covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge celebrating the end of an era. What would the old grads think as they rolled over and bent an ear? What, indeed...
Chang got Szechwan under control, gathered more experience at the Gimo's elbow, practiced his halting English. Sociable, with an eye for bright ties and an ear for funny stories, Chang got along well with Westerners...
...kind that K. had never heard on a telephone. It was like the hum of countless children's voices-but yet not a hum, the echo rather of voices singing at an infinite distance-blended by sheer impossibility into one high but resonant sound which vibrated on the ear as if it were trying to penetrate beyond mere hearing." K. asks when he can come to the Castle. " 'Never,' was the answer...