Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough in its renown to venture beyond the limits of the conventional concert program. Bartok, Stravinsky, Milhaud. Berg, Britten, Piston: shall we have to wait two more generations before they appear on a concert program as something more than rare curiosa? And Corelli, Vivaldi. Buxtehude, Palestrina, Monteverdi: shall we hear them only in recording or at rare chamber concerts...
...great relaxation at Holmes is the elevator war. When all 105 girls want to go up or down at approximately the same time, and only one elevator exists for that purpose, the call button scramble demands a good deal of timing. The inept can hear the elevator going up and down time and time again, never stopping because their button-pushing is always a half second slower than that of more skilled competitors...
...them through it without halting them once, murmuring bravos and molto benes. "Gentlemen," he told them at the end of a third rehearsal, "you could not have played better. I am very pleased." This week the winners of the reserved-seat lottery and the standing-room queue got to hear what had pleased the Maestro so. London's reaction: 13 years was a long time between Toscaninis, but it was worth the wait...
Seven thousand surgeons swarmed last week through Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Gathered for the annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons, they packed room after room to hear technical papers read and discussed. They watched dozens of colored movies (Cine Clinics, they called them) of operations ranging from standard procedures through the specialties to the spectacular. They trooped off by bus and motorcade to 61 hospitals in New York City's five boroughs to watch "wet clinics," as they call the real thing...
...they giggle and slip away into the underbrush. When Irma tries to clothe the women in sacklike dresses of her own design, they cut holes in the tops to bare their breasts. After a brief vogue, even this ventilated version goes out of fashion. When the natives hear of Irma's virginity, they laughingly dub her "The One Too Slippery to Be Caught...