Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his 27-year Manhattan ministry, Bonnell preached to 3,000,000 listeners weekly over his radio program, which he inherited from Harry Emerson Fosdick. He was also one of the first to apply science to salvation through "Dial-a-Prayer," whereby callers can phone a number (Circle 6-4200) and listen to a 30-second recorded inspirational message...
...first Thursday of the month, nine months of the year. As the hour nears, the streets from Mecca to Marrakech grow strangely quiet. Groups of spade-bearded sheiks repair conspiratorially to their salons; workers jam the coffeehouses, and nomads huddle like crapshooters in their tents. As they listen to Um Kalthoum's tremulous voice, old men weep, women writhe on the floor, and the hashish smokers-whose purchases soar to monthly peaks just before the broadcasts-drift into glaze-eyed reverie...
...International Days of Protest will be holding demonstrations all over the globe in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima, and in protest of the Vietnamese war. A num- ber of the New York demonstrators, including A.J.P. Musty, are expected to drive up to the meeting in Connecticut to listen to Senator Morse's address...
Back at Prairie Lodge last week, under the peaks of Baldy and Old Scab, Douglas and his bride appeared blissfully unconcerned by the headshaking on the Potomac. "We don't get much news around here," drawled Douglas. "On the short-wave radio we can listen to the broadcasts from the Bureau of Reclamation and Peking." The latter, at least, should be worth listening to if Peking approves the Justice's plans, sanctioned last week by the State Department, to visit Red China with Cathy this September...
...summary, it should be admitted that this is a pretty smooth album, low on outright cacaphony of the sort you get in "Tombaton" (Opus 6), or in "It's Allright, Ma" (Opus 5). To some extent this is just the problem of Blonde on Blonde is easy not to listen to, even played loud. Few lyrics are as said imposing as these reckless un-set texts...