Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer scores compositions for mechanical pianos and fire sirens, and has created no major musical scandal since his Ballet Méchanique nearly panicked Carnegie Hall in 1927.* Instead, he has been quietly sitting in his Los Angeles home, industriously turning out music that is remarkably easy to listen to. Last week he was on hand for the opening of his third opera, Volpone, in Manhattan's minuscule Cherry Lane Theater...
...John the Baptist and St. Athanasius. Cried their leader, Father Augustinios Kantiniotis: "Public scandals are being prepared . . . exhibitions of naked bodies . . . Paul the Apostle wrote that Christian women should 'adorn themselves in modest apparel,' but the organizers of these orgies say, 'Don't listen to Paul . . . undress yourselves . . . and become known as Miss Universe!' Greeks, war veterans, mothers and fathers, shout, 'Down with these orgies!' . . . and, with the help of Jesus Christ, we will prevent Greece from being turned into another Hollywood." The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church approved the stand...
Much of the hearing was devoted to a reading aloud of Winchell's columns by lawyers, plainly a pleasant ordeal for Winchell. In good humor, he volunteered so many comments that his own lawyer cautioned him: "It is better if you would just listen." When Post Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind, onetime federal judge, set forth that Winchell had printed Russian propaganda, Winchell amiably agreed. "Do you remember when Mr. Churchill made his famous speech [in 1946, warning of Russian aggression] at Fulton, Mo.?" asked Rifkind. Answered Winchell: "I panned hell out of it." He admitted having used...
...come not with orders from Tokyo but from a higher command: God." When he spoke of a wish to lay a wreath on the bombed-out hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona, which still holds the bodies of 1,092 U.S. Navymen below decks, the Honolulu Advertiser editorialized: "Hawaii will listen with interest to what Captain Fuchida has to say, but Hawaii believes that his chief mission as a Christian now lies in Japan...
...author. A book should be judged as a book. No art or literature can flourish if it is to be measured by the political views or private lives of its creators. No society of free men can flourish which draws up lists of writers to whom it will not listen, whatever they may have...