Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British] suckers of blood and squeezers of nationals' lands are determined to impose their policy of overlordship on East, South and Central Africa. The British bwana wants all people who are not white to be slaves." ¶"We would be glad to hear Mr. Eisenhower suggest to the Soviet Union that it join hands with the Americans to fight imperialism. Mr. Eisenhower could not do so because America also is now a state which wishes to have colonies, to oppress and exploit...
There, in words Frenchmen hardly expect to hear these days, M'bida, the African, complained that Ramadier. the Frenchman, was trying to propel the Cameroons toward independence too rapidly. And with one of those sideswipes for which he had become notorious. M'bida declared: "I regret that in disavowing me, Mr. Ramadier furnished support-which I would like to believe was involuntary-to the agents of the Soviet Union...
...slid into a number he has sobbed to audiences the world over: The Little White Cloud That Cried. To club patrons, it seemed the same old lachrymose wheeze, but to Johnnie the effect was like "the first atom bomb, exploding in pieces everywhere." Singer Ray had abandoned his familiar hearing aid, for the first time in his career was able to hear his own caterwauling at its painfully natural decibel count...
...show, Bernstein replied: "I have come to take them not very seriously any more. When you do get mad at a critic is when he is a self-advertised authority and at the same rime proceeds to display ignorance, making mistakes, showing he doesn't have ears to hear with...
...industry regards as a more eupeptic attitude: they ignored it. Although isolated scores such as Max Steiner's music for Gone With the Wind caught the public fancy, Hollywood's rule-of-baton used-to be that a good score is one the audience does not hear.* Now film scores have become big sellers on the pop market. The change was foreshadowed by The Third Man theme and by Dimitri Tiomkin's High Noon; both tunes were dramatically part of the movies whose titles they bore, but also became huge independent hits. Nowadays a producer may assign...