Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watch him as with his quick step he walks upon the concert platform and begins to lead the chorus. He is electric with energy and controlled enthusiasm . . . Listen to him as he talks to the men between pieces . . . They follow his every motion, listening to his every word . . . It is the old, old story of the power of personality." So eulogized a Boston critic...
...Without more encouragement the gauche musician sat down and began to play his C major Sonata. Before he had proceeded far, his host cried, 'Walt, Gott im Himmel, Clara must listen to this...
...lives scraping against each other in a way that leaves skin burns. He does not keep his story moving, his chapters are episodic, and sometimes he forgets his important people while he enjoys an aside with a minor character. But when his characters talk, it is hard not to listen; all the more because their Australian vernacular is lively and unfamiliar. And the chief characters are something more than made-ups whom Author Gladwin pushes about at will. Gladwin is, in fact, that most hopeful and doubtful kind of writer: a promising first novelist...
...Curtin expressed astonishment. The gibbets, he explained, were just part of the decor: he planned to name his place "Gallows Knoll." And he had meant no offense when he turned on the music. He just liked to hear hillbilly music, and turned the radio up so that he could listen as he worked in his yard. Besides, he was not happy to hear the recorded hymns that waft from the cemetery's public-address system every Sunday. "It boils down to this," he explained. "I've plots in that cemetery, and I'll probably be buried there...
...rule that the College developed out of the Eisler controversy was a simple one: "Any recognized student organization can hold a meeting in a Harvard building, if they can find a room available, and listen to any speaker it can persuade to come...