Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists saw the dilemma. Japan's Communist boss, plump little Sanzo Nozaka, good friend of China's Mao Tsetung, found that Marxism has little ideological appeal for his countrymen; but when he promised them more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow in all Japan. Asked what effect recent political events in China were having on Japan, his dead-fish eyes lit up: "Hee, hee, hee," he giggled, "a very great effect, very good...
While the orchestra tuned up, "kids swarmed over the stage, inspecting everything from tubas to tympani. But when husky Conductor Ben Swalin rapped his baton for attention, they scrambled to their free seats, got set to listen. Swalin gave them excerpts from Schumann's "Spring" Symphony (No. 1), a Mozart rondo, a serving of Vaughan Williams and Berlioz and a chicken-reel. Before each number, the musicians held up the instruments to be featured so the kids could see them. And when the last chicken was reeled the youngsters hollered for more. So did the grownups at a second...
...firm place in U.S. letters. "We talk of escape literature and look down our noses at it. But all literature is a form of escape. The readers demand it, I am interested in readers. To hell with editors. You can dig your own literary grave if you listen to editors. The detective story is a far more inspiring sermon than one from the pulpit. It reassures the reader about life, makes him believe that justice always triumphs. The western story and the detective story go hand in hand. They are full of sincerity and guts, heroes who shoot straight...
...Tree Exercises remained in watered down form until late in the 1920s. For a time, the tree was the scene of unofficial ceremonies built around a dirty story contest; women were strictly barred, but many of them used to sneak late the lower floors of Yard buildings and listen in through half-closed windows. This too was finally forbidden...
...visual attention than the ordinary, unselected sights of everyday life, closer even than movies, may exaggerate this tendency. The TV audience had not seen the locksmith, but had heard him speak several times during the play. Yet, reasons CBS, the audience was looking so hard that it forgot to listen, and could not place the murderer's voice. Later that night CBS was forced to telecast a "news bulletin" announcing the identity of the killer...