Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...softly, in terror). Well, he'll hear...
...subcommittee announced it would hear any Senator who appeared voluntarily, but House Speaker Sam Rayburn stopped that: "If I were a Senator, I would not come voluntarily. If a Senate committee called me, I'd tell them to go dig potatoes, deep...
Computers are muscling in on humans in more ways than one. Only a few years ago they were still simple-minded beasts that could understand nothing but predigested figures. Later they acquired senses of a sort: they could feel changes of temperature, hear musical tones, recognize differences of light and shade. But they could not see as humans see. A primrose by the river's brim-or even a picture of one-meant nothing to a computer...
...This, to hear Conductor Leonard Bernstein tell it, is what might be happening at a climactic moment during Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Bernstein bawled this analysis from the podium at one of his current New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts. His point: music does not need verbal meanings assigned to it, and Don Quixote could as well be about Superman as about the "silly old man" on a "skinny, bony old horse...
...BABY BOOM, read the screamline in Variety. "The teen market ... is due to rise by leaps and bounds starting with 1958 . . . and motion pictures have the potential for a great attendance revival." It was the kind of talk that harried Hollywood likes to hear, and so far 1958 has lived up to expectations...