Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself, John McClellan, who also heads up the Senate's newly created special rackets committee, put the alternatives in two crisp sentences: "If he is leaving the country for good, well, that's it. But I assume he will be back, and when we are ready to hear him, we will subpoena...
...Zion's newest marches are not to be won lightly. In crowded Gaza, where the 9 p.m. curfew has not prevented Arabs from clustering to hear Cairo radio's nightly exhortations to "rise up and act for the glory of the Arab world," the Israelis face a crisis in cooperation. The Arabs feel the uncertainty of Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing...
Sweetening the Sound Track. Much as the forgery is abused and resented, the TV comedy producer argues that it is uniquely needed by the medium, demanded by sponsors and even desired (at least unconsciously) by the viewers. Psychologists agree that people in audiences laugh aloud partly because they hear each other laughing. Therefore, for maximum enjoyment, the theory goes, the viewer alone or in small groups must get the feeling that he is in a crowd and free to join its merriment. A few sponsors have scoffed at the use of canned laughter, but the counterfeiters have had the last...
...lights. Three priests were sent by the bishop to cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what country people would call 'a hard death.' " The Thing won out in the end. The haunted family eventually went off to the U.S., and "the gallant clergy, who made such constant efforts on their behalf, seem to have been...
These conferences bring to the University nationally prominent figures in different career fields who discuss and answer questions concerning their professions. Attendance at these meetings has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous; last year 300 students packed Kirkland House Junior Common Room to hear Robert Anderson '39 and other noted theatre personages discuss careers in entertainment and mass communications. On the other hand, only 25 came to the seminar on Chemical Industry. The large attendance at the theatre conference was attracted by the luminescence of the personalities invited and by the interest in a new theatre for Harvard, while...