Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene in postwar France, recalled last week by an officer who was there, illustrates a basic personality trait with which Eisenhower's staff officers in SHAPE in World War II also were familiar. Eisenhower is a slow starter. He likes to surround a problem, to watch, listen, absorb and learn all he can. Then he acts decisively, firmly. This was his method of operation in planning the invasions of North Africa and Normandy. It was his technique in the presidential campaign last year. He now recalls, with understandable enjoyment, the much-quoted August 1952 Scripps-Howard editorial which declared...
...Gaithersburg that what she wanted most of all was to hear Del Monaco once again. What happened could have happened only in the U.S., where people 1) form committees, 2) believe that dreams come true. Irene went to Milan on funds donated by The Committee to Enable Irene to Listen Again to Her Tenor...
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 29-year-old editor of the conservative weekly L'Express: "The French mystery is impotence-that lucidity should be followed by nothing. If you listen to an ex-minister, he will explain with serenity what might have been done; if you meet a man in office today he will brilliantly explain what should be done. The ideas are seductive, the directions are clearly indicated, the plans are detailed. France conceived the universe and then nothing, or almost nothing, happens . . . The men who govern today or have governed in recent years (they are practically the same...
...Most people (57%) listen to radio before and during breakfast, while they are busy dressing, bathing, eating...
...cost. Last weekend a thousand rich Negro voices welled up in the Sam Houston Coliseum in the half-resigned, half-hopeful words of favorite spirituals and hymns. Children pantomimed angels and devils, flowers and animals, while a narrator boomed James Weldon Johnson's words in The Creation and Listen, Lord. With an audience of 4,000 and a big advance ticket sale, there was a tidy profit of almost $12,000 to underwrite the convalescent home for the next two years. There are separate and similar accommodations for English-speaking whites and still others for those of Mexican extraction...