Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Izvestia's office the news headlines run in lights like those on the New York Times building in Times Square. There are plenty of taxicabs (all checker banded) to take the visitor to a restaurant-the Aragva, the Praga, the Peking, the New Yar-where he will probably hear American jazz badly played and pay possibly $20 for an indifferent meal, though the caviar, the tea and the ice cream will be excellent. But Moscow night life, except for a furtive prostitute outside the Moskva Hotel and, in almost any bar, the sight of a solitary Russian throwing back...
...remarkable statue of Joan by an unknown medieval sculptor -"the figure of a sturdy, stocky girl," as Director Joseph Anthony describes it, "with thick hands, almost like a man's, laid together heavily in prayer. Her head is slightly raised -but demanding, not beseeching, God to hear. Her shoulders are hunched in heavy, earthbound determination. She has a natural concentration, like an animal's. Eye and body and brain are united without strain in simple existence...
Martin Luther's commentary on Psalm 2:11 ("Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling") revealed the distance the father of the Reformation had come -and the end he hoped to attain. "As a young man I hated this verse for I did not hear with pleasure that God had to be feared . . . I did not know that fear had to be mixed with joy or hope . . . We who are Christians are not entirely fearful or entirely happy. Joy is joined with fear, hope with dread, laughter with tears, so that we may believe that we shall...
...seems to be demonstrating that music should be heard and not seen. In emphasizing video at the expense of audio on musical shows, TVmen often sacrifice good sound, and sometimes good music, without managing to get good TV. The televiewer who closes his eyes and listens can hear how crude, sloppy and badly balanced most TV music is. Opening his eyes and looking, he can see how overbaked or tasteless the images that go with music can be. Last week's musical shows ranged from a brand-new opera to the singing of vintage popular songs. Most were calculated...
...while giving them much greater freedom. The plan emphasized long-range learning with syllabi readings to prepare the student for general exams at the end of the year, much like the famous Hutchins plan at the University of Chicago. Only weekly discussion classes would be compulsory and students would hear what lectures they selected, with the aid of an adviser, as most valuable...