Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday's meeting of the Student Council. Winans said yesterday that he still plans to attend the meeting and hopes to be allowed to speak. He added that a member of the Council who voted with the majority to withdraw from N.S.A. would probably ask that Winans' views be heard...
That suave soul John Mason Brown last spring was heard to say "at least half of Harvard's undergraduates will admit reluctantly that they write poems." Identity, whose editor James Manchester Robinson is not a Fifth Avenue preacher as you might expect but is, rather, a vigorous undergraduate about the Square, promises give light to Harvard's reluctant poets in their dark corners or wherever they...
...with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the song with him on his far-ranging folk-song safaris in the 1930's, twanged it at campfires and from college platforms. Two decades later in Dublin, carrying on his father's research, Alan Lomax heard Irish Folklorist Seamus Ennis sing an almost identical Irish lay about an old man cradling a newborn baby he half suspected was "none of his own." Lomax tracked the song to County Cork, where the old people sang it in Gaelic, calling it simply "the oldest song." Why? "Because that...
NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by Vladimir Nabokov (214 pp.; Doubleday; $3.50), follows Lolita, the cannon shot heard round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that...
...beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch bellow back: "I won't be blistered...