Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine to 14-Let them listen to the radio; play up stories of gallantry and cheerfulness among war-stricken peoples; discuss with them the background of war, the peace-to-come...
...part of their program for sculptural and fresco decorations in Rockefeller Center's slab-sided skyscrapers, stocky, bob-haired Sculptor Milles had worked for three years. Milles got the idea for his singing statue from a line by German Poet Johann Gottfried Seume: "Where song is, pause and listen; evil people have no song." Taking three huge blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks he carved two flanking figures: a bristly, annoyed...
...readers require of prose that it make concrete sense as they think sense should be made. So Gertrude Stein, who uses prose to build a series of abstractions, either infuriates most readers or elicits defensive jeers. But readers who are willing to read words as they are willing to listen to notes in music-as things without an explicit message-can get from her work a rare pleasure. The three stories in her earliest (1909) book, Three Lives, being anchored to sense, are good ones to start on. Her latest book, Ida, much more abstract, is a good...
...either dance to jazz music or you listen to it, or both. That's what it's for. And it can be something very minor in your life. Like going to the movies or skiing. Most people take it that way and they're probably just as well off. But there are some of us to whom it means a little more than that. Why, I'm sure I could never explain, although your jazz aesthete will tell you that it's the only art from that America can call her own, and they will go on to say that...
...line with the trend to relax burdensome parietal rules are several new regulations recently announced. Cautiously, but none the less openly, Eliot House has extended radio hours to 11:30 on Saturday nights to allow students to listen to the excellent music at that time...