Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Reinhold Niebuhr of New York's Union Theological Seminary will speak on "Meaning and Mystery" at services in Memorial Church tomorrow at 11 a.m. Amplifying equipment has been installed so that the noted theologian may be clearly heard thoughout the Church...
...Daddy-Mark Mclntyre-took them over to a recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President Si Waronker flipped too. By now, the record has sold more than a million copies. The next Patience and Prudence effort, Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now, sold 700,000 and made the sisters one of the hottest...
...dinning a new language into the U.S. ear. It is something like English, but it has a grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of its own. It grows out of a rich compost of dialects heard at Lindy's and the Stork Club, in the hominy-grits-and-corn-pone belt and around Hollywood and Vine. It is calculatedly lowbrow: and out of the mouths of M.C.s, comedians, interviewers, children's hosts, singers and announcers, it has become a powerful influence on American speech. Critic Clifton Fadiman calls it Televenglish...
...They employ certain mandatory words and phrases, now becoming part of our general vocabulary: but seriously to indicate that what follows is to be duller than what has preceded; definitely for yes; great or wunnerful to express mild approval, or often merely to show that the M.C. has heard and noted a statement by the interviewee; he's so right; I've got news for yuh; that's for me." While quiz shows are "cultural"' in content, the tone set by the M.C. strikes a contrast. Money winnings become a bundle; an elderly lady contestant...
Since his election to the Illinois state legislature in 1954, Paul Simon, publisher of the weekly Tribune of Troy (pop. 1,260), has "heard newspapers cursed in the cloakroom and fought on the floor." He began to wonder if the "small but vocal group attacking newspapers" reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the press among state representatives and senators. Publisher Simon mailed out questionnaires to legislators of the 48 states. The nonpartisan survey, whose results were published this week in the March issue of Quill magazine, gave politicians a rare opportunity to talk back to the press...