Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...network wants to make its programs not only easier to hear but easier to listen to. Most U.S. radio programs, planned in Manhattan and Hollywood, ignore the fact that 48% of the U.S. lives in towns of 5,000 or smaller. The farmers' hookup is interested in its listeners' interests. Some of its rural wrinkles...
...Song Is Born (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) may not be entirely satisfactory to either hep cats or squares. Jazz addicts will want to take the picture home with them, to listen again & again to the jam sessions of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. To those who are mystified by popular music, these names will add up to much noise and little sense. A Song is designed as a starring vehicle for Danny Kaye, but he is almost drowned out in the blare...
...discussion on topics of interest. Some of the old rascals have scrimped and saved enough to get battery radios and now keep up with current events and national issues with as much interest as you do. The discussions sometimes get a bit gusty, but I'd rather listen in on some of these sessions than sit in on The Pursuit of Happiness round table which LIFE ran. These people are really pursuing happiness. They are trying to get the last drop of pleasure out of life. Yet they have changed their outlook considerably since they have good books...
...find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin' your vegetables." Even some Richmonders who profess to be fed up with his sagelike utterances and sweet-talkin' voice admit that they listen anyhow...
...this course. He frequently got to his points via answers to questions he threw at students chosen from his little list. This system forced the students to keep up with their work, which bothered many of them. The real trouble with the method, however, is that it makes students listen to each other, which is always dull, when they could be listening to Professor Miller, which is often fascinating and--this I judge by two other courses I have taken with him--sometimes inspiring...