Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was standing room only in the National Film Theater when London's cinema fans turned out en masse to hear nouvelle vague Director Jean-Luc Godard deliver a lecture on movie making. But the appointed hour came and went with no sign of the speaker. Finally, the disappointed audience was read a telegram from the elusive Godard: "If I am not there, take anyone in the street, the poorest if possible, give him my ? 100 lecture fee, and talk with him of images and sound, and you will learn from him much more than from me because...
Died. Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, 84, Negro evangelist, whose messages of hope lifted the spirits of untold thousands during the Depression; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims!" shouted Michaux in his nationwide radio sermons from Washington. So many people responded with screams and cash that Michaux was able to feed some 250,000 of the city's poor at his soup kitchen...
Expensive People, the middle volume of a trilogy that began with A Garden of Earthly Delights, spooks the suburban-castle country of the upper middle class. Author Oates has but one message in her demonic little tale: behind the suburban facade lie corruption and madness. To hear her tell it, American husbands and wives are nice clean-cut vampires planting stakes in each other's hearts. And there is always the monster in the playroom...
...Just what I expected to hear from a type-head like yourself...
STRIDING ACROSS the auditorium stage at Babson Institute several weeks ago, Julian Bond appeared almost embarrassed by the standing ovation of almost two thousand people who had flocked to hear him. "It's him...I don't believe it, it's really him," exclaimed an ecstatic co-ed in the front row, a tweedy, horn-rimmed middle-aged man atoned to his wife, "God, he looks worn." The introductory applause kept Bond on his feet for almost five minutes. The air was hot and tense with excitement as people recovered the seats that many of them had come two hours...