Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's jazz-bent Embers, looked unsmilingly over the jabbering crowd and spoke into the microphone: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to remind you that it's almost axiomatic that music sounds better against silence. Not dead silence-just enough so that we can hear ourselves play." It might have been the old Artie Shaw, the one who called jitterbugs "morons" back...
...fingers rambled up & down the fingerboard. Clarinetist Shaw began to interpolate light-hearted musical comments on his own flights-the raised eyebrow of a grace note, the shrugging arpeggio, the delayed take, the impudent echo. His glum face relaxed into smiles, and the crowd began to hear the new Artie Shaw...
...fighting desperately against poverty and putting aside every penny to be able to marry her. His high-strung state at this time is shown by a clinical anecdote. Expecting a visit from Martha, Freud found that when he laid his stethoscope on a patient's heart, he could hear "nothing but the rushing of a railway train...
...Jones's own unbreakable silence during chimney sweeping has given rise to the hyperbolical legend that his patients hear him speak only twice: "How do you do?" at the first meeting, "Goodbye" at the last...
...problem is convincing people from outside our area to come here instead of other schools. Other Ivy colleges, particularly Princeton and Dartmouth are campus schools, and they have heavy attraction. The chief objection we get from the boys is that they want to get out of the city. You hear it from the New York boys and you hear it from outsiders who are wary of schools in a city." Ireland admits that it takes a good deal of convincing to point out to prospective students that Columbia probably offers as much extra-curricular life as any other Eastern school...