Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born to do something," says restless Joe McCarthy. Joe is doing something. His name is in headlines. "McCarthyism" is now part of the language. His burly figure casts its shadow over the coming presidential campaign. Thousands turn out to hear his speeches. Millions regard him as "a splendid American" (a fellow Senator recently called him that). Other millions think McCarthy a worse menace than the Communist conspiracy against which he professes to fight...
...Manhattan, some 300 scientists, doctors, astronomers, engineers, aviators and lawyers were too busy to hear it. They were gathered at the Hayden Planetarium for the first annual Symposium on Space Travel, and they were loading up modern Conestoga wagons for the interstellar frontiers...
...reverse side is Bach's seldom-performed Concerto for flute, violin, and piano. The best thing in this performance is Martin Boykan's delicate piano-playing, but poor microphone placement makes it impossible to hear all of the notes. The surfaces, except for a few minor scratches, are quite good, and both records may be obtained through the Orchestra...
...School meeting, which will be restricted to members of the Democratic Club, will hear Ryan discuss "Boston Machine Politics." It is scheduled for 3 p.m. today in the Wheeler Room of Holmes Hall...
...chief causes for discomfiture among contemporary American composers, it appears, is the American public. It won't buy their music. Copland, about the only serious modern composer whose music has been commercially profitable, is nevertheless worried about the problem. "We like to think that people don't hear enough contemporary music. At any rate they don't understand it. There is a confusion in modern minds between art in literature and art in music; people will accept Gide and Mann in their literature, but must have Tchaikowsky and Brahms in their music...