Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosophy has a strictly limited appeal. Although the Meeting House was not filled and there was room for any of his disciples who so desired to come in and gaze at his august presence, his audience included only about 35 people, mostly old ladies, who had come to listen rather than to jeer. Except for the demonstration against him, Smith's appearance would have attracted about as much attention as the weekly meeting of the Ladies Sewing Circle...
...scribe who said of Till the End of Time, "It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945" [TIME, June 23]-was he kidding the public? Anyone who had the nerve to pen such a banality should be forced to listen to Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye and Freddie Martin till the end of time...
...will make him sit up and whistle. Supreme optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn't you?"; 4) "It is bad manners not to listen to the priest"; 5) "Be blunt, be brief, be gone...
...confessional" of the psychoanalyst's office, total recall is encouraged; but psychoanalysts are paid to listen...
Relaxing in your room while you listen to a lecture has become a reality due to the current series of Lowell Institute Lectures. Substituting the microphone for the platform bark, the Institute broadcasts eight programs each week over five Boston stations...