Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they are afraid of being different; they would not have an opinion different from every one else if they were paid for it. I'm not a bit that way; I have plenty of opinions, but they get me into trouble all the time--most people like to hear you say what you like for a while, but they soon tire of it. But come, I am just reeking with platitudes; that seems to be a failure with me when it comes to interviews. I must be afraid of the press because I always dream of being sent through...
...devout Catholics. United by Rome, they knelt together at a solemn votive mass in St. Mary's, Dublin's procathedral, before starting their battle in Dublin's parliament. Sarcastically Battler Cosgrave said, "We will give President de Valera every opportunity to develop his policies. We don't want to hear his explanations of policy?we want to see what he is going...
...Rochester, N. Y. a quiet old lady who dresses mostly in black was told that her son had become President. ''I am very happy to hear the news," said Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright. She bore Eamon de Valera where Manhattan's Chrysler Building stands today. The President's father (a Spaniard) is dead and so is his stepfather, Mr. Wheelwright. Several times Eamon de Valera has visited his old mother in Rochester...
...promote propaganda. Since jazz does neither, it is never played. Madame Bufferfly may be given at the opera house but extremists reconcile themselves to it on the ground that Pinkerion. the naval officer who deserted Butterfly, was a capitalist. All religious music is banned. Spirituals are popular but Russians hear them only after references to the Lord are eliminated. A performance of Haydn's Creation was forbidden even after new words were written. The music stayed essentially religious. A concert dedicated to Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven was advertised lately as "The Dawn of Industrial Capitalism." When Dancer Ruth Page...
Truly typical of Soviet music was Mossolow's Soviet Iron Foundry which Stokowski played early in the season (TIME, Nov. 2). Soviet Iron Foundry perfectly describes a mass of noisy machines. Most Russians prefer Tchaikovsky or Beethoven to the kind of din they hear all day at their work. But the Government encourages music which publicizes the new regime. It frowns on any music that is languorous or melancholy. For this reason gypsy music, so popular before the Revolution, is generally tabooed. The new music is vigorous, direct and, like Soviet newspapers, optimistic...