Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democracy was the keynote as the 1,300 members of the Supreme Soviet walked into the white hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to hear Premier Nikolai Bulganin deliver what was in effect a State of the Soviet Union message. They sat in their polished wood pews, drably dressed Baits and colorful Asians in skullcaps and shawls, gawking at the 8-ft. statue of Lenin and reading Pravda, hushing attentively while Bulganin pointed with pride to the nation's industrial output-up 12% over the first half of 1955-and viewed with alarm the disappointing performance of the coal...
...followed, while Kapitsa himself lived in silence, the Western world's topmost scientists clamored furiously for his release. The Russians ended by paying hard cash to Cambridge University for the special laboratory Cambridge had built for the scientist to work in, but as to releasing Kapitsa, they would hear none...
...many a performer receives in a lifetime (TIME, Feb. 6). Nevertheless, he has long cherished an ambition to forgo performing for composing. At the Stratford (Ont.) music festival last week, he put his multiple talents on display. Within one two-hour program, he appeared as piano soloist, returned to hear the first concert performance of his String Quartet, followed that by conducting Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte...
...grubstake is still virtually impossible to find. In the audience at Tanglewood last week sat a man who has committed much of his time and most of his fortune to changing all that. He is 49-year-old Chicago Wine Importer Paul Fromm, and he was at Tanglewood to hear the works of two of his protégés, Ben Weber's Serenade for Strings and Alvin Epstein's Sabrina Fair, premiered by members of the Boston Symphony...
...stories have the disappointment of an interrupted journey. Bates remains faithful to the British conviction that, while it is interesting to hear things about one's neighbors, it doesn't do to get too close to them...