Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair-minded appreciation of both sides, turn to the funny page, and rest content without further questioning of their own or others' attitudes. A committee, group, or union organized with a particular conviction in mind inevitably degenerates into an agency for propaganda, particularly since it must compete for the ear of the public. Propaganda shies away from reasoned argument and open-minded hearings of the opposition, and squanders its energy on slogans, pickets, and one-side rallies. In the face of this assault, the average student either swears a blind allegiance to the particular group which voice his opinions...
...cluster of gentle and disregardable nuts is the 1941 committee. Chairman Priestley, before the war a writer of folksy reveries like The Good Companions, has turned into a national oracle. No less than 40% of Britain's 14,000,000 radio listeners give him ear when he discusses each Sunday night the problems before the Empire...
...Henderson got hold of Harry Hopkins for a two-hour talk at San Juan, P.R., and got Hopkins really alarmed about the defense situation. Hopkins is living in the White House and is closer to the President's ear than anybody else...
...more, and everybody comes in and they really take the finish a part, and you say It's Too Much and start throwing chairs at people. Then they sign off with a slow blues, and it's intermission. You walk across the street to Julius's and ear the best roast beer sandwich in the world while Eddie Condon tells you how he's going to quit the music business. He's been saying that for fifteen years...
...battle to mature the mind it does not destroy. The bullet that passed through Holmes's neck at Antietam lodged in his brain. He lived the rest of his life as if the words with which he closed his 90th birthday address were momently true: "Death plucks my ear and says Live-I am coming." He lived with the wise irreverence of a soldier who has seen the end of the story too often and knows that its only novelty is in its surprise. This vast tolerance was really neither liberal nor conservative. The natural perch of his mind...