Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to express our thanks to Wendell Furry and to Leon Kaman for the dignity with which they behaved at the recent McCarthy hearings. For anyone willing to listen they reflected in their attitudes, the integrity of Harvard University...
...Leaves & the Roots. The following Sunday, from the 400-odd pulpits of the archdiocese of Seville, a pastoral letter was read, denouncing this "imprudent priest" and forbidding parishioners to listen to Father Marcos or discuss his broadcasts. Then Cardinal Segura instructed all his priests to deny absolution to any penitent who refused to pledge himself not to listen to the broadcasts...
Claude J. Batchelor gobbled up the Communist line almost from the day in 1951 when he was taken prisoner in Korea. He quickly became known as a rabid "progressive," worked constantly to convert his fellow P.O.W.s, and, to anyone who would listen, proclaimed himself a "peace fighter." When other prisoners were repatriated after the ceasefire, 22-year-old Corporal Batchelor. 1st Cavalry Division, was a leader of the 23 Americans who chose to stay behind...
...taps working, and the New York City Police Department. A state law allows any New York cop above the rank of sergeant to apply for a court order to wiretap, even when investigating misdemeanors. Orders are easy to get. Now & then, the cops tap public phones, listen in on hundreds of conversations in the hope of picking up leads on bookies or prostitutes...
...Miller High Life Beer. Sherwood had been promised there would be no censorship ("Unless, of course, I loaded the script with four-letter words"). NBC went even further: Sherwood got free run of the set, and the actors (Thomas Mitchell, Wendell Corey, Yvonne de Carlo, Gene Lockhart) were to listen to and obey all his instructions. Sighed Sherwood: "If it's a flop, it's my own damn fault...