Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burroughs, a Harvard graduate of the Class of 1670 and the former pastor of the Salem church, was seized. Soon scores of persons were under suspicion and no end was in sight. The matter became the concern of the whole colony and a special tribunal came to Salem to hear the cases. It consisted of some of the outstanding leaders of Massachusetts, headed by William Stoughton, Class of 1650, soon to become Deputy-Governor of the colony...
Other indications of the fascination with the drama during these years were the audience of 1500 persons that crammed Sanders in 1895 to hear a speech by the famous actor Joseph Jefferson, and the great interest in Boston productions which resulted in a series of Harvard nights at downtown theatres. In 1904 the Boston Transcripts could well say, "There is not a University in America in which a numerically appreciable and notably intelligent and finely strung body of students cultivates the arts of the theatre with the eager and usually discriminating zeal of the Harvard students...
...everyone, of course, the clubs have not waned in importance, as the Deans' Office found out several years ago. In the Rollo book, University Hall made the error of belittling the influence of the clubs on the undergraduate. Outraged alumni of the final clubs would not hear of such heresy. They beleagured the deans with protests, pointing out that many of the most active alumni and boosters of the College have been members of final clubs...
...Flying Friars normally operate in teams of three. Whenever they hear of a Communist meeting or rally, they crank up their ancient Fiat, and bear down on the local piazza, loudspeakers, documentary films and tape recorders at the ready, fighting for a chance to give their side a hearing, too. During the June Italian elections, one of the-friars, heckling a Communist speaker, quoted the man against himself. "But I never said that," the orator shouted, "not even in my dreams." The friar quickly turned on a recording of the Communist's remarks in question. Cried...
...tyranny and big-souled resignation, all set to the orchestration of Wolfe's sonorous words. Says McCleery: "If we don't do things like this, we're not doing our job. You've got to let people know that occasionally they're going to. hear beautiful words, beautifully spoken...