Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destiny of this great nation than I am? Why die for pressure groups, farm blocs, international cartels, war profiteers ? . . " There are no doubt honest and conscientious individuals in Congress. (I have recognized no statesmen.) One has only to study their faces, pictured at various times in your magazine, listen to their immature mouthings over the radio, to realize their heartbreaking deficiencies, their utter lack of true greatness. . . . The peace, I am afraid, is already lost...
...composing at 18, modeled his work after his idols Bach and Handel, in 1942 orchestrated McDowell's Sea Pieces (originally for piano). Said Barrymore of Sevitzky: "We don't know each other and yet are good friends. He sees me one day on the screen and I listen the next to his recordings and we understand each other...
...lecturer, writes most of the editorials and a chatty, personalized column-"so there'll be something the working man can understand." Daniel Bell, 24, who was a working Socialist on Manhattan's lower East Side at 13, is an associate editor. Another is tall, grey, ex-Communist Listen Oak, who was "disillusioned" by a trip to Russia and by experiences with Communists while helping the Loyalists in Spain...
...want to be in on the show. I've never suggested a star, walk-on or cashier-fortunately, none of my relatives ever hankered to be any of the three." Nearest Cullman comes to being a nuisance is in phoning theater people early in the morning. "Listen, Cullman!" Russel Crouse once screamed into the receiver, "I got into this show business because I like to sleep late...
...personalities like Grace Moore are not to be reckoned entirely by the operatic yardstick. As she herself states with typical candor: "There may be some who will still say it isn't [a great voice]. But I do have a voice that has made people listen, that seemed to make people happy and exhilarated." With all her faults, she remains one of the few divas since the retirement of Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden who can cause dramatic excitement merely by walking onto the stage...