Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...window and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellow keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing to be confined indoors, it overflows the little room, swells out through the casements, and drifts down the sunny street. Men turn from their tasks and listen, as to a Pied Piper; old fingers and young ache to play. Someone in the fields takes up a fiddle; a fine gentleman blows the dust from his guitar. A street boy whistles; soldiers sing. All the street is become a gypsy orchestra. It is happy Vienna, Schubert's town...
...announcement of election returns which eleven merchants in Harvard Square are sponsoring through the CRIMSON tonight, smokers lasting until dawn are being conducted in five Houses and the Freshman Union. Since the news came out that Leverett was planning an all night meeting for the House members to listen in on returns, Lowell, Kirkland, Eliot, and Adams have also arranged to have radios in the common room and will serve refreshments. In the Union the radio in the upstairs room will be kept going but there will be no free cider or smokes...
...window, and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellow keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing to be confined indoors, it overflows the little room, swells out through the casements, and drifts down the sunny street. Men turn from their tasks and listen, as to a Pied Piper; old fingers and young ache to play. Someone in the fields takes up a fiddle; a fine gentleman blows the dust from his guitar. A street boy whistles; soldiers sing. All the street is become a gypsy orchestra. It is happy Vienna, Schubert's town...
...wonder as you look at him and listen to him-is it so impossible that he be the Raphael reincarnate? For he tells you that his birthday falls on the same day, the same month as the Italian's. . . . The horses in the Ravenne bear an, unmistakable likeness to Raphael...
...will not be to clean blackboards or copy promises of good behavior. Their task has been allotted them by Conductor Leopold Stokowski who, finding it difficult "to give the hopeless generation new ideas," declared last week that he would try to make children like modernistic music by having them listen to his broadcasts...