Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that sudden rush of sound by saying, 'Darling, do watch this, isn't it fantastic what that razor will do to the hidden beard?' Maybe . . . but if they have to get up and lower the volume, someone in the room is going to say, 'Listen, while you're on your feet, see what Steve Allen is doing, or better still, turn...
...need; he's alone and sick! What would you advise Esther if you were Ma? Well, Esther went over to see Ma, and now at about half past 5 in the late afternoon we find them on Ma's front porch. Listen...
Back home in Japan, Pianist Toshiko, 27, used to listen to all of them on records -Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie. She would take down the melodies and try to decide why they improvised as they did. Her father was an industrialist in Manchuria, and she studied classical piano there until the family was forced to return to Japan by the Chinese civil war. Toshiko prepared for medical school, but when she got a job playing with a dance band at the U.S. Army officers' club, she decided she wanted to be a pianist instead...
Corallo: No? All right, you don't have to come in. Listen...
...sperm whales, try to listen to them, will you?" These were about the last words heard by the crew of the research vessel Atlantis before casting off last spring from the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution on a voyage to trace currents in the Atlantic. They were shouted at dockside by tall (6 ft. 1 in.), intense Harvard Zoologist William Edward Schevill...