Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Used to hear about the gold fever that hit the oldtimers," he says. "Terrible thing it was. Many a man was murdered in cold blood because of it. Well, we got a new one now, uranium fever, and as long as the fever lasts and people keep on claimin' everything in sight and them outside promoters keep swarmin' in here with their big-money offers, there's bad trouble ahead...
Each man rose in turn to hear his citation, except Paul Buck who was absent. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, received the citation...
Visitors at the biggest festivals will hear much of the same excellent music from the standard concert repertory that they heard during the winter at home. In Prades (June 7-20), the Casals Festival will offer Beethoven chamber music (top visiting artist: Rudolf Serkin). At Amsterdam, The Hague and Scheveninge (June 15-July 15), visiting conductors will lead the Concertgebouw, The Hague Residentie and BBC symphonies. At Bayreuth (July 22-Aug. 22), Wagner's two grandsons will mount seven of the master's music dramas. Salzburg (July 25-Aug. 30), as usual, will specialize in Mozart, but will...
...Quite honestly," says Morgan, "we can and do read. We can and do see paintings and hear music . . . During the past few years, American universities have paid out thousands of dollars to bring scholars. To speak bluntly, these scholars have all too often insulted our students and ourselves by presenting lectures which the most naive young instructor on our staff could give without any preparation . . . We cannot feel happy about spending our money to bring a distinguished guest one hundred or three thousand miles to hear him recite the alphabet...
...clothes that he has salvaged from the wreck; the note deepens with the death and burial of his companion, the dog; it breaks into wild orchestration as the crazed man runs to an echoing valley and there hurls the 23rd Psalm against the ringing hills solely to hear the answering sound of his own distorted voice. In a drunken revel, O'Herlihy re-creates in his cave all the roistering cheerfulness of an Elizabethan pub, but this ends, too, in a disillusion so great that he walks blindly into the surf, bearing aloft a blazing torch. When he drops...