Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert L. Fischelis 2L, Non-Resident's Graduate Secretary, said yesterday that he expects at least 300 commuters to hear Conant, and has made special arrangements with Professor John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, to hold the function in Eliot's dining hall...
Josh White is the latest in the long line of visiting specialists to offer his wares at this popular spot, and his performance is something to hear. Offering a well balanced program of American ballads and blues, White can hold an audience spellbound for more than an hour at a time. And sometimes he does...
Lighting educational fuses is his specialty. He started as an undergraduate at Columbia over 30 years ago. Professor John Dewey, then the Jove of Morningside Heights, once came to a meeting of the university philosophy club to hear one of his students read a paper. As the thin, intense young man warmed to his subject, the great philosopher's face grew red. Finally, when young Adler quoted a passage from Dewey and commented, "There is certainly nothing of the love of God in this utterance," Dewey could take no more. He jumped to his feet, shouting, "Nobody is going...
...scheduling the first performance of Alcestis in eleven years, General Manager Rudolf Bing had two ideas: !) he wanted to hear Gluck's somberly magnificent music again and 2) he cannily thought that the challenge of the big name part might be enough to induce Kirsten Flagstad to postpone her retirement one more year. He was right. Though she was tired after 23 years of singing Wagnerian roles, she was intrigued with the idea of learning a difficult new role at 56-and singing in English for the first time on the U.S. opera stage...
...Stuart from security issues. Then Government Attorney Henry V. (for Vincent) Stebbins abruptly announced that he was about finished with Stuart. Medina was flabbergasted. It was "nothing short of criminal," he said, for the Government to end its examination without bringing out facts which he had been "dying to hear for a year and a half." Snapped the judge: "This is the most tremendous waste of time I ever heard of. I just cannot stomach...