Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden descent to the living death decreed for the man who slew his father, lay with his mother and could no more than any other mortal "make the gods do more than the gods will." Through TV, perhaps millions were able for the first time to see and hear the people of Thebes bid farewell to their fallen, blinded king with Sophocles' final lament...
...best take on a team of six of the best U.S. players was a little surprised when it was urged to break all the un written rules. "Hiss when you want to," said the master of ceremonies. "Cheer or boo or shout. The players can't hear you." The players were comfortably quaran tined behind soundproof glass walls so they would not be disturbed by crowd noise, the monologue of a commentator who mapped the play on a long board, and the scurrying of the technicians who were there to immortalize the contest as the first televised bridge tournament...
...upon, the bizarre recorded sounds . . . combined with the urgency of the need and the final insufficiency of all attempts to satisfy it ... The sound is turned up and up until it reaches the physical level of pain . . . One addict told me he would not be satisfied until he could hear the drop of saliva from the French horns...
...Never, perhaps, in the history of the church," writes British Catholic Historian Christopher Dawson, "have the peoples come to Rome in such numbers and from so many different regions . . . We seem to see the beginnings of a new pentecostal dispensation by which again 'all men hear in their own tongues the wonderful works...
...written to please, or at least not to irritate, powerful groups in Washington. The smarter Foreign Service officers are able to get their point and their observations across under a camouflage of outwardly harmless verbiage. The less acute reporters either say what they know the "right people" want to hear, or say the wrong, though perhaps honest thing and sometimes lose their post, their promotion, or their job. When a report is written with the idea that it will be read ten years from now or that what it says must not offend an important group of people, the report...