Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional pistol shot, which was an important feature of every one of his plays through The Three Sisters. But here, for the first time, the pistol shot takes place way off in the distance. And only in his final play, The Cherry Orchard, is there no pistol--instead we hear the forlorn sound of a far-off axe chopping a tree as the curtain falls...
WHEREVER people could read, watch or hear the news, they followed the epic journey of Apollo 11 with fascination. Most Americans were jubilant, if sometimes at a loss for words. An elderly lady awaiting a flight at Chicago's O'Hare Airport simply stood up and sang America the Beautiful when she learned that the moon landing had succeeded. Said Robert Hutchins, the usually articulate head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara: "It's marvelous. What else can you say?" Author Paul Goodman, a frequent critic of U.S. institutions, wrote...
...need a President for foreign policy," Nixon told White in 1967. He quotes an unnamed friend of L.B.J.'s recalling the President's comments on his own peacemaking efforts: "I got earphones in Moscow and Manila, earphones in Rangoon, and earphones in Hanoi, and all I hear on them is 'F you, Lyndon Johnson.' " The historical value of other of his recollections is dubious. "Over the thirteen years that I have been following Humphrey," he writes, "I have never known any candidate who turns more to cheese as a natural provender in crisis...
They believe that the chant will bring God-consciousness to all who hear it. "The sound of the word Krishna' is no different from Krishna himself," their "Spiritual Master" Bhaktivendanta teaches...
...very enjoyable concert, performed in unpleasant surroundings. It is exciting and edifying to hear professional musicians perform at a school which either openly or covertly discourages musical performance. If Harvard could acquire an auditorium for such performances, perhaps it could acquire more such performers to fill...