Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a general uproar. At that point Mrs. Asquith, who was among the audience, ascended the platform and announced: "This gentleman is my brother. You have a perfect right to come here, but no right to do what you are doing now. Those who don't want to listen...
...FORBID!, The New York Evening World published an editorial which said: 'Hiram Johnson's notion of a foreign policy for the United States boils down to this: Never go near a "council" table at which any other nation has a right to speak. Never confer. Never listen. The attitude of the United States toward other nations must always be: "We do not argue with you. We tell you." Debate is unAmerican. . . . Watch for earthquakes, famines and the like. These visitations afford a chance to point to good-samaritanism. . . . Never try to understand Europe. ... Be as selfish...
...clarity and force should realign these two divergent feelings into sober admiration. In it he has set forth what to him is the teacher's credo and since he has had a wealth of experience from which to formulate the credo, one will do far better to listen than to sneer...
...might be pointed out to Mr. Zangwill that his own Britain is just as prone to listen to the opinions of the unqualified as America. It is notoriously true that the British amateur strategists who possessed political importance were able to make themselves felt during the War in military affairs to an extent which greatly hampered the British Army. Nor has Britain come out of the World War without important compensations in the way of new colonial possessions. Still, if Mr. Zangwill really feels this way, it is much better for both his audience and himself that he should...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Payne Concert Hall, Charles D. Isaacson will speak on "How to Listen Intelligently to Opera." The lecture has been arranged by Professor W. R. Spalding '87, of the Music Department, who believes that one cannot fully enjoy grand opera without a certain amount of previous preparation. The lecture will be illustrated by having an opera singer give some of the better known operas followed by a brief resume of the story of the opera...