Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession drew into Boston the crowds grew denser and more conclusively enthusiastic. Some 150,000 people jammed Boston Common and vicinity and police reserves and guardsmen were almost powerless. Boss Curley introduced the President who made a speech from his car. A good part of the crowd did not hear him because the amplifiers were not strong enough...
...Last week in Manhattan's Hippodrome a People's Committee Against Hearst solemnly held "public trial" of the old publisher, pronounced sentence of boycott on his newspapers, magazines, radio stations, cinemas. The slogan: "Don't read Hearst, don't see Hearst, don't hear Hearst...
...Sometimes when we go to concerts to hear other pianists -and great ones, too she gets nervous at the mistakes they make, and says to me 'Oh, daddy, what would you say to me if I played like that?' ' Father Slenczynski. who was shell-shocked during the War. has done much to make his talented young daughter seem horridly precocious. Like a Svengali he dictates her routine, eyes her sharply from the wings whenever she plays in concerts...
...years ago, on Stravinsky's last U. S. visit, a customs officer looked suspiciously over a bundle of his scores, asked in what language they were written (TIME. Jan. 14. 1935). Many U. S. concertgoers are just as confused when they hear Stravinsky's music. Others regard his trick harmonics as a glorious, artistic in novation. A few rank him and his old friend Painter Pablo Picasso, equally well-grounded in classicism and equally able to produce conventional art forms if he chose, as the 20th Century's greatest artistic jokesters...
...Artifice, a fantasy so colorful that Sergei Diaghilev promptly commissioned him to write for the Russian Ballet. Fame came quickly with The Firebird (1910), Petrouchka (1911) and Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) which caused such a furor at the Paris premiere that the dancers, unable to hear the music, followed the beat of the frenzied Vaslav Nijinsky, shouting to them from the wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being...