Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the pale light of the quarter moon and the red flicker of a Hayes Bickford sign, historic Fancuil Hall opened its doors briefly Sunday night as hundreds of "Citizens for McCarthy" poured in to hear Roy M. Cohn and other advertised patriots...
...intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers still prefer the wilder, louder jazz that thrives on full bottles. But in a matter of five years, Brubeck fans have grown from a small, West Coast clique to a coast-to-coast crowd-particularly on college campuses. What people hear and cheer in Brubeck is not only a new type of jazz. It is the same exuberance that is causing a tremendous boom in all types of jazz-the birth of a new kind of jazz...
...gets a pressing, and usually washes his own nylon shirts in the bathroom. His wife used to go on tour with him, but he was nervous whenever he knew she was listening to him. ("When are you going home?" is his standard question to her whenever she comes to hear him play.) Despite his casual, smiling manner and his slouching walk, Brubeck is constantly tense. Unlike other musicians, jazz players of Brubeck's type cannot simply sit down and play from memory or from the sheet: since they never play a piece the same way twice, they are under...
like, interj. Filler word for pauses of uncertainty, e.g., "You wanna hear some jazz, like...
Although Toynbee made only the one appearance, the crowds seeking to hear him rivaled those of last spring when Adlai E. Stevenson gave the annual Godkin Lectures. All three of Stevenson's lectures drew capicity audiences...