Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These one-man, grass-root surveys of public opinion leave me skeptical. People are polite by instinct and tend to tell the inquisitive stranger what they think the stranger wants to hear, or at least something that won't hurt his feelings...
Like Gilbert & Sullivan's Pooh-Bah, the President stepped over to the French side of his office where the co-Prince could not hear him, and announced that he no longer recognized the leaders of Andorra's Council of the Valleys, who governed in his name. The Pyrenees principality promptly threatened to get even by issuing new postage stamps franked "Sovereign Republic of Andorra...
...Andorra is not a sovereign state," said one Quai d'Orsay official impatiently last week. "One of her co-Princes, the President of France, has now sent a message complaining that the Council of the Valleys has failed to ratify certain French reforms. We are now waiting to hear what Andorra's other co-Prince has to say." The other co-Prince, the Spanish Bishop of Urgel, whose title goes back as far as Auriol's, said nothing. He had only their spiritual welfare at heart, the bishop told the Andorrans. As the words fly back & forth...
...kind of music Americans need to hear: "We are looking for two kinds, the kind that reacts to the crude life around us, and the kind that creates a remote world that is far from everyday life." Stokowski has a strong feeling for the second kind, promises new fantasies by such composers as Modernist Wallingford Riegger and Tapesichordist Vladimir Ussachevsky (TIME, Nov. 10) for future CBS network programs...
...Tennyson Jesse & H. M. Harwood) used an English love-triangle murder case, not in order to raise goose pimples, but to offer a slow-motion, 13-scene biography of the hanged but possibly innocent wife. The whole thing was so soporific that the opening-night audience could hear A Pin drop into limbo; there was no second performance...