Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S critic listen again before passing judgment on one of Brahms's last and most mature works, the Second Clarinet Sonata [TIME, Nov. 25]. Far from banality, this, the greatest of all clarinet sonatas, has the warmth and depth that only a Brahms could give to Romantic music...
...alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle before a snapping log fire, listen to the faint roar of the Nisqually River, and watch his pretty wife, Martie, cooking a 19-pound turkey...
...Santo Tomàs and Los Banos Internment Camps, he was a never-failing source of encouragement to me. He was a true friend to me when friends I had known for years wavered-so trusted by myself and my husband (then friend) that he was allowed to listen to our concealed receiver whenever he wished to get straightened out on some of the more wild rumors. There is no trust higher than that, believe me, in a Japanese internment camp...
...arrived in the U.S. on a lecture tour (see RELIGION), promptly piped: "I understand that Dr. Niemoller . . . was against the Nazis because of what they did to the church, but that he had no quarrel with them politically. ... I cannot quite see why we should be asked to listen to his lectures." Blurted the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, sponsor of Pastor NiemÖller's tour: "The record clearly shows that he repeatedly spoke against political aims of the Nazis as early...
...student playgoer and his companion aren't particularly anxious to see a third-hand version of a second-rate Broadway production in which the favorite college wit unsuccessfully attempts an imitation of Monty Wooley or Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success...