Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance last week an inflated nine-foot lobster and a cardboard octopus of grand design decorated the stage of Cincinnati's Music Hall as schoolchildren and proud parents filed in to hear the Cincinnati Symphony do Sea Secrets, a Cantata for Speakers, Chorus and Orchestra...
...down amongst planter-hating "rednecks." Jim and his father were inseparable, but somehow Woods Eastland's rollicking geniality never rubbed off on his son, and Jim grew up cold, reserved and somewhat arrogant. Said a clerk in a Forest general store last week: "I hear folks say what a grand job Jim Eastland is doing and what a fine man he is, but I don't know. I always remember him as an uppity...
...saint of the councils. Stepping into a vacuum at the heart of the councils, he gave them a philosophy and a voice, and today Southern cities which had barely heard of him two years ago fight for dates on his crowded speaking schedule. Those who manage to get him hear what has become almost a canned speech. In it, Eastland starts from the assumption that the anti-segregation decisions represent a violation of the Constitution. "There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution or the amendments there to," says he, "that gives to Congress, the President or the Supreme Court...
More than 2,500 Russians jammed Moscow's single Baptist church to hear them preach, and rose to chorus "Welcome!" in Russian as each was introduced. The clergymen tramped through Moscow in bitter cold to visit the city's historic spots. They were even invited to Tallin, the capital of Estonia, which has been barred to foreigners since World War II. On a trip to the 14th century Trinity Monastery at Zagorsk, the Americans were startled by their hosts' propaganda measures: throughout the 45-mile drive, an open ZIS limousine sped along before their motorcade crammed with...
...years the American musicians' union has been able, in effect, to keep British bands from performing in the U.S., and the British Ministry of Labor has returned the disfavor. Under the circumstances, the only way English jazz lovers could hear live American jazz at home was to visit U.S. military bases. The drought was so severe that some fans set up special flying excursions to such unlikely jazz centers as Dublin and Brussels. But last week the curtain was lifted in Britain. Stan Kenton's 20-piece band played a concert in London's Albert Hall, where...