Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welles.put up more resistance. He first ignored, then rudely rebuffed the young man. After a month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks...
...people, living under appalling conditions, went to church during Easter week, they listened to music, not as the bourgeois Swiss or Americans listen to it, but as a source of escape from squalor and misery into the beauty that only music under such conditions can provide. All over Germany last week hungry, tired, confused little people were listening to the Passions according to Matthew and John of Bach crowding into unheated churches and into dark cathedrals with boarded windows. They began during mid-afternoon (so people could get home before the subways closed at 9:30) and continued as night...
...spent most of his time with businessmen, or conferring with political leaders. He had seen Stalin (see PRESS). Last week, in Stockholm, his path crossed Henry Wallace's-the third of the trio. They did not meet. Said Stassen of Wallace: "I did not come here to listen to him." Said Wallace of Stassen: "Maybe he feared he would get tainted...
...which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner said that he "might be a demagogue or a statesman, and the man hanging might be a villain or a hero. The people must listen because they can do nothing else...
...Listen, birds, these signs cost money...