Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singing of its huge (203 voices) Echoes of Eden choir had been bringing in new members to Los Angeles' stuccoed St. Paul Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...
...large lecture course is negligible. One of the most outstanding facts about the lecture system is its impersonalized, off-hand method of presentation. Except as far as they are restrained by a rather fluid attendance requirement, students can take lectures or leave them. Undergraduates walk into a lecture, listen long enough to find what is on the day's agenda; if they are uninterested, they walk...
Vainglorious Lout. Up & down the land from a thousand wagons and soapboxes her rich voice called for Home Rule. "Thousands who come to see this new wonder, a beautiful woman who makes speeches," wrote Yeats, "remain to listen with delight. . . . The papers of Russia, France, Germany and even Egypt quote her speeches, and the tale of Irish wrongs has found its way hither and thither...
Last week some of Dr. Hawley's pals got together in Boston to honor him and to listen to some Hawley-style history. For his "miracle" job in reorganizing veterans' medicine, the Association of Military Surgeons awarded Major General Hawley the Gorgas Medal.* Historian Hawley seized the occasion to boom an American hero whom few laymen had ever heard of. He nominated as the "alltime...
...style at its Steiniest, and reading it takes more than most readers want to give. Even admirers of Gertrude Stein will be grateful to Thornton Wilder for his luminous introduction. Wilder's advice to the reader: be intelligent enough to put aside the vanity of intelligence; relax and listen. The reward: a pleasurable sense of listening to nonsense that is unique...