Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court had heard all sides, but it was not to be rushed into headlong decision. It set a second hearing for Sept. 11, four days before Central High School was then expected to open. Then the battle of Little Rock will presumably enter a new, perhaps climactic, phase...
From Kansas State, Milton Eisenhower moved to the presidency of Penn State, and there, in 1952, he heard from Dwight, then in Paris commanding SHAPE. Irresistible pressures were building for Ike to make the run for the Republican nomination for President. Inevitably, the final decision would be Ike's own. But in the making of that decision, he wanted Milton's valued advice. Milton's opinion: Ike should...
...films belongs to Dr. Thomas Jones of the National Science Foundation, who conceived the project as a Brussels Fair exhibit. But "the U.S. Government is very poor," Chemist Eyring observes pointedly, and there was no federal financing to be had. Eventually 83-year-old Philanthropist Alfred P. Sloan Jr. heard of Jones's plan, and although the fair deadline had passed, agreed to development and production through his Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Ford Foundation is paying for prints and distribution...
Died. Florent Schmitt, 87, French composer of ballet (The Tragedy of Salome), chamber music (Quintet in B Minor), piano, orchestral and choral music (Psalm 47) ; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. In June the audience at the opening concert of the Strasbourg Festival heard a sparkling phenomenon: Florent Schmitt's new and youthfully buoyant first symphony, premiered in his 88th year...
...last passages of Lolita, as Humbert waits for the police, he comes to understand the true nature of his crime. He recalls how, on a dark hillside, he heard from below a "vapor of blended voices, majestic and minute . . . divinely enigmatic . . . and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord." Thus it was when James Joyce's hero Stephen stood in the school study listening to the voices of boys at play. "That is God,'' said Stephen, "a shout...