Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This leads to the question of music criticism in general. Few would deny that critics are a natural and necessary evil as long as people listen to music as a serious aesthetic experience, but what line should criticism take? It should be constructive, but not in a soupy, overtolerant way, nor yet in a casual "Well, what does it matter anyhow?" sort of way. The former type is represented in New York by such as Downes of the "Times" who is one of the best meaningless-phrase-makers in the business, and the latter by such as Simon...
...instead of signing off it was inaugurating a regular four-hour program lasting to 5 a.m. for the benefit of "swing shifters" in local war industries. Knocking off work and dining after midnight, accustomed to stay up until at least 6 a.m., these men and their families now may listen to a full "evening" of radio, including, by transcription, some of CBS's best sustaining shows (e.g., the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Report to the Nation). This was smart public service, and an immediate success...
...Bluebook blues" is not only a fake malady. Exams only intensify what Dr. Bock believes are the ever-present problems of the undergraduate. "Year after year we try to explain, but they don't listen to us," he said. They stay up all night, feeding on coffee, coca-cola, caffein tablets, and benzedrine sulfate." If students would go to bed around 11 o'clock instead of cramming. Dr. Bock feels that they would do better on the exams next morning...
...perhaps not too painfully. Speech was now so free that the Parliament was delaying the transport bill with interminable debate. Individual opinions were so tolerated that swastikas might be seen on many walls, and in the bazaar hawkers sold portraits of Adolf Hitler. And anyone who wanted could listen to his radio and hear Axis propaganda. The Shah confessed himself a frequent listener to Japanese broadcasts in Iranian. "The Japanese," he said, "never mention themselves, but always talk of what Germany can do for Iran. They . . . invariably describe Hitler as a Mohammedan who is a direct descendant of the Prophet...
...what the crowd was there for; they greeted him enthusiastically. "Hats were thrown in the air and shouts of 'Viva America' and 'Bravo Welles' resounded as the tall, dignified diplomat debarked," reported Joseph Driscoll to the Herald Tribune. The Argentine delegation was caught in the multitude and forced to listen to the celebration...