Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LISTEN, HANS!-Dorothy Thompson-Houghton Mifflin...
Thousands of U.S. citizens will go to bookstores this winter and buy a copy of Dorothy Thompson's new book: Listen, Hans! In her book they will find a brilliant political essay making an argument of first importance to the makers of United Nations policies-and to the citizens who control the makers. She clears great jungled areas of confused thought to state the basic issue...
...dozen coal-black native boatmen who had come to help the U.S. troops unload. Said Private Taylor: "Liberians! We are here to join hands and fight together until this world is free of tyrannical dictators." One of the boatmen shook hands. The rest, who had paused solemnly to listen, went back to their work...
Robert Miller '46 will play a cello concerto by Johann Braun, a violinist virtuoso and contemporary of Mozart. The music shares the common failing of virtuoso-composed concerti, a lack of organic give and take between solo instrument and orchestra, but it is very pleasant to listen to. For the most part, Miller plays like a veteran, and when a Freshman undertakes to play what an 18th century virtuoso wrote to display his own technique, it would be foolish to cavil at small lapses of pitch or phrasing...
...students and professor alike settid down to listen to the weekly bread-cast of the Philharmonic orchestra that Sunday afternoon. In preparation for History I quizzes the next day, men attacked Thompson and Johnson with their accustomed desperate urgency. Some went to movies, others lingered at dinner. All in all, it was a very ordinary lazy Harvard Sunday afternoon...