Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would buy the book. If a book said he was bad, the police would ban it. So nobody tries it." Later, over a card-table dinner of "roofed fish" (a Baghdad speciality) in Nuri's home, the old strongman told more about himself than the West has ever heard before. For the Arabian Nights' story of the Iraqi strongman, Nuri asSaid, a blue-eyed Arab, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Pasha...
...gathering, of what Dean Bundy termed "lawyers and other civilized men," heard two addresses and an announcement of a record class donation to the Law School at yesterday's annual luncheon for the alumni of all the University graduate schools...
...even go to the movies without meeting some old roommate or something. Every year you're here you know more and more people, because nobody goes away--they just pile up. Pretty soon you can't help thinking that you know everyone worth knowing, you've heard everything worth hearing, done everything worth doing. And because you keep meeting the same people in different places doing different things, you don't have to be very good in whatever you're doing--there'll always be someone around who's met you somewhere else...
...enduring giant among composers. Edward William Elgar came close, though not very. Perhaps the best that can be said for him is that he admirably expressed his era. A discerning friend once wrote him: "You have translated Master Rudyard Kipling into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar...
...first blink, this seems to be one of those drab little British dramas in which an ill wind can be heard whistling across the raw clay of a new housing development. But there is an extra dimension: magic of sorts. At St. Bride's, a public school "of the second class," middle-aged Bill Mor wonders what to do with a life already half wasted in the chalky smog of history classrooms and hopelessly Potterized by his wife, a ruthless practitioner of "one-upmanship." The chance of liberation comes in the figure of a beautiful, boyish girl artist named...