Word: earful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hearty welcome. The critic of the conservative Corriere delta Sera labeled Communist Zafred "a more brilliant and enthusiastic Shostakovich, more harmonious and proportioned and . . . more sincere." Turchi's Concerto was "a jewel of balance, reserve and nobility." Peragallo's twelve-tone experiments were "more intelligible and ear pleasing" than most such attempts...
...catch Mao's ear, Harry Truman chose to talk mostly about Formosa-instead of Korea. The Chinese Communists had protested belligerently to the United Nations about the "aggressive" U.S. Seventh Fleet lying in the Formosan straits. Said the President at his press conference last week: of course, the Seventh Fleet would be pulled out as soon as the Korean war was over. In English or in Mandarin this seemed to mean: stay out of Korea, fellows, and when the ruckus there is all over, Formosa will be left out in the open, where you can grab...
Partly the difference lies in a freshness and informality. Partly it lies in a brash approach that encourages visual puns (e.g., after a harmonica quartet, Garroway is shown eating his way through an ear of corn...
...view of U.S. art was dim. He had filled the Charles River with a champagne-fizz of sailboats and bright ripples, turned the boxy Suffolk County courthouse into a castle of air, given Boston Harbor's fishing fleet a carnival atmosphere, set Beacon Hill on its ear and made the Georgian brick halls of Harvard dance (see cut). All in all, his Boston pictures were Parisian as ever...
Though he invariably writes with an air of great authority, Martin has pulled such bloomers as: "Among those who know Algernon Hiss . . ." Martin argues his views plausibly, sometimes brilliantly, but he is torn by constant doubt, often reflects the opinion of the last man to have his ear. Martin is no party liner, but since the magazine's unofficial policy board is made up of such anti-Communists as Labor M.P. Richard Grossman and such proCommunists as Alexander Werth (who is currently a Titoist). the editorial policy is as changeable as Martin. Said one British Socialist last week...