Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madison, Wis., slightly less than four months ago, a jury, mostly made up of farmers, began to listen to complicated legal arguments, conducted furiously by a total of 66 attorneys. In succeeding weeks, marching in twos and vigilantly guarded, the twelve jurymen and two alternates were occasionally taken out to exercise on the shores of Lake Mendota. For Christmas they had a tree in the juryroom and as a special favor they were allowed to speak to their families. Their mail was carefully censored. They were not allowed to see The Life of Emile Zola because of the courtroom scenes...
...Listen, what are you-my friend in the grass or a snake in the grass...
When fans hear Benny Goodman's disciplined but unfettered band play on a phonograph or the radio, they tap their feet. When they listen to him from a dance floor, they shake all over. When they listen to him while sitting in large numbers in an auditorium, they are likely to cut up rough. Last spring when Goodman played Manhattan's Paramount movie theatre, the folks got to running up and down in the aisles and extra police were called out. Something like this took place in the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie's polite plaster shrine last...
...present, he offers only such concrete examples as how semantics enabled him to cure himself of a fear of "snakes," such hypothetical examples as how it might keep a man from committing suicide. In the mind of the would-be suicide, suggests Chase, would occur a semantic Stop-Look-Listen! monolog like this: "This is bad; this is painful, depressing, almost intolerable. But my life, my organism, is a process, always changing ... no two contexts are tho same. . . . Snap out of it, brother, snap out of it! Prepare for the next context...
...animosity, all the characters emerge as too intense to be as funny as the situation warrants. But if it adds nothing to Lewis' reputation as a humorist, The Prodigal Parents makes it reasonably certain that this time there will be no left-wing dinner at which he will listen uncomfortably to the praise of radical critics...