Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said: "Although I'll be off for a couple of weeks, part of me will remain here . . . my ulcers, my headaches, etc. NBC has been very generous in giving me time off during the year. Of course, it pays to have a good lawyer . . . you've heard of mine, 'Tony' [not Louie] the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." This was not said "half-facetiously." It was obvious farce, having no relationship to any person...
...North. James Foreman's statement last March to Harvard Afro-Americans -- "Your very presence in this American, educational institution is, by example, oppressing your black brothers and sisters . . . I'm fighting for your mind, baby, just like Whitey" -- antagonized, not inspired, Negroes who listened for a concrete program and heard only polemics...
...guiding principle of the Harvard Music Department, it is often said, is that music should be seen and not heard. The recital by Easley Blackwood Monday night was one of the department's rare gestures of support to performing music. Composer-pianist Blackwood performed works by Schoenberg, Charles Ives, himself, and Harvard's own John Perkins (of Music 154 fame...
Strick, or his scriptwriters, must also be commended for the judicious selection of dialogue fragments here. Often, in Bloom's imaginings, single faces fill the screen as they thunder a brief phrase, then vanish and aren't heard from again. We have seen a bit of this in Lester's The Knack, but how much more delightful to have such phrases be Joyce's, to have instead of "Mods and Rockers!" Theodore Purefoy's faithfully Catholic, "He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature!" or to have a solemn diagnostician pronounce. "He was born...
...fixation is the result of what she calls sub-vocalization, "The first assurance you had that you could read was when you were able to look at the symbols and say the words outloud.... This gave you great security. Knowing that the symbols you read were the words you heard made you begin to lean heavily upon the sound of words... you had become so thoroughly accustomed to the sound in connection with reading the words that you would have difficulty breaking away from the necessity of hearing the sound as you read the words." In most adults, this oral...