Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thud of stomping feet and the din of dancing in the aisles. "And all those opposed?" persisted T. O. Jones, the emotion-choked president of Public Works Local 1733, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. In their delighted and deliriously unanimous mood, the question was neither heard nor heeded by Memphis' 1,300 striking garbage...
...mind them having a fight here, but we don't want them to carry away the arena." He reserves his choicest thrusts for Kennedy. "I really don't think they can buy Indiana, but they're going to try. I've heard that the Kennedys paid $2,000,000 more for West Virginia than Thomas Jefferson paid for the entire Louisiana purchase...
...much that is composed today seems to be done with electronics, or kitchen utensils. The score looks like an engineering design, and you feel that, instead of a musician, you are an atomic engineer. Yet I hesitate to reject it. Beethoven and Mozart never heard the sounds of today-the ringing of a telephone, the roar of a jet engine starting. If they had, perhaps they would have utilized them in their music. The same goes for plastic art. Leonardo da Vinci never saw New York City at night. Rembrandt didn't see the vistas that our astronauts have...
Africa's most talked about playwright is Nigerian Wole Soyinka, 33, who has languished in jail since August on charges that he aided the Biafran secession. His voice is being heard loud and clear off Broadway. Two Soyinka one-acters were produced in November, and now the skillful and creative Negro Ensemble Company (TIME, Jan. 12) has undertaken his full-length Kongi's Harvest. In their hands, it is a considerably better production than it is a play, although there is some interest in seeing how an African writes about Africa's No. 1 problem: turning tribes...
...weren't here when the war ended. You were on vacation -- in Bermuda or Florida or New York or Ohio. And you were watching television that night, never really expecting anything. Or you heard about it when the sun brought you a newspaper the next morning...