Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLORADO. The state convention met to hear speeches by Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman, and to pick an uninstructed 20-vote delegation which leans strongly to Adlai. Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and ex-Congressman John Carroll got approval to fight it out for the Democratic senatorial nomination in a Sept. 11 primary. The winner will square off against ailing Republican Eugene Millikin in November...
None of this, nor the fact that many do not even know the language he addresses them in, bothers his audience. They have come not to hear Nehru but for darshan, the spiritual impact of being in the presence of a great personality. When the speech is over, the crowd cheers, and amidst the applause Nehru bounds down from the platform, smiling at everyone, his irritability gone. "Nehru," says one American familiar with these spectacles, "is the opium of the Indian masses-and they...
...Richland, Kans. (pop. 200), Democrat Georgia Neese Clark Gray, whose signature graced the nation's folding money when she was Treasurer of the U.S. (1949-1953) organized a weekly whistling contest, limited to kids under 16. Reasons: obscure. Prizes: two shiny silver dollars. "I just love to hear the sound of whistling," burbled Mrs. Gray. "Why be gloomy when you can be cheerful...
...journal-left, right, highbrow or lowbrow-held out. "Gentle, soothing and intriguing," breathed the Manchester Guardian. The Daily Express chuckled at the press-conference repartee: "Q. 'What specific Beethoven symphonies interest you?' A. 'I have a terrible time with numbers. I know it when I hear...
...program states that "the original music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier" is being used. (Some of what we hear, however, is by Lully, who, to be sure, had been Moliere's composer until a feud parted them.) Since Tufts has gone to the trouble to dig up authentic music and has billed the production properly as "a comedy-ballet," I wish the group had made the extra effort to include the usually omitted prologue and ballet interludes. Tufts then would doubtless have had the honor of giving the first complete performance of the work in this country...