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...kind of smoky torch song. Anita Morris is stunningly lovely, with some of the impish mischief of Gertrude Lawrence and a delicate edge of satire in her voice that Porter would have relished. There are 32 numbers in all, and a good half well repay the hearer...
...record jackets. Mary offers written comments by Mary on every song she sings. Unfortunately, her songs are the least memorable for their message and need to be justified by personal reactions. Paul and includes the lyrics which, had they not be printed, would not endure in the hearer's mind. The music alone is not engaging enough to draw the listener into the words. Peter has a picture of Peter singing to an infant. His music correspondingly speaks for itself, and he may reasonably hope that new ears will be interested in his new thoughts...
Exactly who it is that will take over the center is a problem of definition. Wasps are not so easily characterized as other ethnic groups. The term itself can be merely descriptive or mildly offensive, depending on the user and the hearer; at any rate, it has become part of the American idiom. In one sense, it is redundant: since all Anglo-Saxons are white, the word could be Asp. Purists like to confine Wasps to descendants of the British Isles; less exacting analysts are willing to throw in Scandinavians, Netherlanders and Germans. At the narrowest, Wasps form a select...
...brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced deafness. The ones that pick up the high frequencies are the first to wear out, and as the noise bombardment continues, the destruction creeps inward to nerves of lower frequency-all without the hearer being aware of damage. About 18 million Americans suffer total or partial deafness; among working males two out of three cases of deafness are caused by noise...
...danger of deafness is thus real and definable. Psychological damage, if any, is mostly in the ear of the hearer. Not a man exists who has not suffered what the experts call "auditory insult"-annoyance or irritation-but all too often, for purposes of definition, one man's sour note is another man's lost chord...