Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasionally hear a church bell," the visitor said, immediately thinking what an insolent thing that was to say, given these or any other circumstances...
...EVER HEAR the story about how Louis Armstrong got discovered in Chicago?" jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie asks with a knowing wink. "King Oliver heard Louis as he passed by in the street. When I started playing trumpet I would practice with my horn pointed out the window in the hope that Louis might drive by." Lester smiled like and old pro as he works up for his punch line: "Louis never heard me, but the neighbors sure...
...question, whether students can hope to hear Bowie in person at the workshop meetings this afternoon, unfortunately meets with a negative. The trumpeter underwent a hernia operation barely a week ago, and is still unable to blow. Aficionados will be pleased to know that Bowie continues to sport a white laboratory coat in concert ("to symbolize the research we're doing into different types of music, different types of reaction"), and his beard still emerges in two prongs from his chin ("I've always been a firm believer in individual expression...
Sometime later, in May, 1983, Dr. Bok telephoned me to say that she had not written because of the press of work at the end of the academic year. She was interested in the letters and articles I had sent, she said, and I would soon hear from her at length, but I have...
...most popular at Harvard. "So it's that time of year again," the friendly professor is reported to have said on one occasion, before launching into his usual explanation that the increasing usefulness of economics is why more than 1000 students once again crowded into Sanders Theater to hear his 12 o'clock lectures...