Word: listener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dialectic doghouse, then let out when Pravda praised his "clear, realistic and emotionally powerful music" for the movie Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25). Now it looked as if Dmitri was back where he started: after thinking it over, the Union of Soviet Composers called a special audition to listen carefully for possible bourgeois discords in his Young Guard music...
...eyed, hothearted little man of 45, Portinari was hard at work last week on a mural celebrating the life of Tiradentes ("the Tooth-Puller"), a Brazilian dentist who used to carry a copy of the Constitution of the U.S. in his pocket and read it to all who would listen. Tiradentes was hanged and quartered by Portuguese colonial authorities in 1792, and parts of his body were exhibited in the various provinces of Brazil as a bloody lesson...
Into Atlantic City, NJ.'s Convention Hall last week trooped 5,000 ruddy, weatherbeaten farmers. As delegates to the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, they had come to listen, vote, sing such old favorites as A Bicycle Built for Two, and take in the sights. Many of them also had a shock. At home they had never seen such prices as they paid for meals in Atlantic City's restaurants...
...first excesses have already disappeared. Few of the patrons of the Roost now wear "progressive" berets and green-tinted, horn-rimmed glasses. There are only one or two of the tentative little bop beards visible in the Bopera House bleachers, where the most serious followers pay 90? to sit & listen. Whether bop is trash or treasure, it certainly isn't a dud. Last week it was all over Broadway...
...Hear It? In Merritton, Ont., Mrs. Ruby Lawrence called all the town councilmen at 4 a.m., had them listen to the cocks crowing outside her window, succeeded in getting action toward passage of an antinoise ordinance...