Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Franco fired Education Minister Joaquin Ruiz Gimenez, 46, an energetic Catholic intellectual of mildly liberal tendencies, who last November made a speech calling on the government to "listen to the people's heartbeat." Thus he was a natural target for Falange Party criticism of the "dangerous freethinking atmosphere" on Madrid University campus. But the Falange was not the only voice in Franco's ear. Possibly for the first time, the grievances of Spain's rising middle classes (of whose restlessness under rigid Falange controls the student riots were a symptom) also claimed Franco's consideration...
...major opera is unknown. The influence of the indefatigable Miss Anthony, whose 86-year life span is the opera's subject, seems certain. Librettist Gertrude S. hints at the link in Scene Four of The Mother of Us All: "If people are rich," says Susan B., "they do not listen to anybody; if they are poor, they listen; but all they perceive is the fact that they are listening. As for me, there is no wealth nor poverty, as long as my pen has ink to write...
When 67-year-old Artur Rubinstein swept his coattails back and sat elegantly down at his Steinway one night last week, many in the crowd in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall felt they were about to listen to the best living pianist. All of them knew that they were to witness a notable musical event: the last of the great romantic performers in the spectacular tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein* had set himself a schedule of no less than 17 major works in a series of five concerts in 13 days-all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, plus...
...Almost. These days Artur Rubinstein is on tour most of the time; each year he makes an extended tour of Latin America, with a stopover in Havana, where admirers keep him supplied with his own custom-made cigars.* "At home I get no rest," he complains amiably. "I must listen sweetly to my children or compliment them on something. My wife wants this or that, and there are friends to see and parties to go to. Touring is easy. I go to my hotel, and there is nothing to do but have my dinner and lie down for a while...
...given goalie of course has to be a shaper of sorts, encouraging his hecklers by responding--even a smile shows he is listening. Flynn has said that the answer is not to listen but to concentrate on the game, adding that "if a goalie is any good, heckling has no effect...