Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARRY BELAFONTE heard Nana Mouskouri, 28, singing in a supper club outside Athens and brought her to the U.S. to tour and record with him some Songs from Greece (RCA Victor), with folk lyrics but melodies mostly by Manos (Never on Sunday) Hadjidakis. Greek is a poetic language of love for Belafonte's mellifluous voice (In the Small Boat, Walking on the Moon). Mouskouri adds some dreamlike songs about freedom (The Town Crier, The Baby Snake...
...months congressional stenographers catalogued the names and protestations of klaliffs, kleagles, kladds and kludds. Last week the House UnAmerican Activities Committee decided that it had heard all the testimony that it needed-or could stand-and quietly ended its hearings into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan...
...everyone of plotting against him. He packed off his Cabinet for three weeks of enforced "self-study" while he attended a Commonwealth conference in Lon don, turned the government over to three hand-picked cronies in his absence. Ever suspicious of his army, he fired its commanders when he heard rumors that they had been "talking against" him, took command of the army himself. Then, three months ago, he announced plans to form a "people's militia," the obvious purpose of which was to neutralize the army if it tried to move against...
...Harvard being Harvard," Monro said, "students and Masters must be heard if they want to be," Although the ultimate auhority for making assignments lies with the Committee on Assignments Monro added, the new system "preserves an element of choice where choice is meaningful...
...Southern education remains geared to "the boy in the picture." Most Southern school districts have done almost nothing to give the Negro student the educational skills that will allow him to assume a role consistent with his new-found conception of himself. Most Northern liberals have heard this problem before and think they understand...