Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLeish also joins other poets in his obsession with time. Writing of The Farm which lasts through generations, he asks, "Why do you listen, trees? Why do you wait? Why do you fumble at the breeze-- Gesticulate ...?" These works on time are the least interesting, the most prosaic because the poet demands an answer all the way through and, of course, can never give...
Then he manfully made a confession about election night, 1952. He went to bed early aboard his campaign train, he said, but woke up about midnight to listen to the radio. What had he heard? Harry Truman lapsed into his famous mimicry of Radio Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn. For four years Truman has regaled his friends with his imitation of Kaltenborn's broadcast on election night, 1948, when Kaltenborn was stubbornly insisting that Tom Dewey was winning. Now the President's zip was undiminished as he mimicked the 1952 Kaltenborn hailing an Eisenhower victory. Only this time, said...
...Listen to those scrubs," he shouts loudly enough to be heard all over the field. "They're out-yelling you and out-playing you, too. What are you going to do about...
Play It on the Piano. By war's end the Anzacs had suffered 68½% battle casualties, and this gave Billy a voice in the Versailles Peace Conference. On the boundaries commission, Billy listened to Ignace Jan Paderewski, Pianist-Premier of Poland, explain a problem which has confused a generation of diplomats: Poland's eastern border. Said Billy, after studying the mass of demographic symbols that Paderewski had chalked on the blackboard: "Listen, Mr. President, the best thing you can do is take that home and play it on your piano...
...missionary, Xavier was more like a streetcorner preacher than the polished diplomat some historians make him out to be. In Bologna, Italy he had attracted attention "by standing on a vacant bench, waving his big hat, and shouting to loungers and marketing folk to come and listen to the Word of God." In "golden, heartless Goa," the citadel of Portugal's Asiatic colonies, he got crowds for his instructions by walking up & down the streets ringing a large bell. And when he found an audience, he held it. Writes Biographer Brodrick: "Perhaps they laughed at him to start with...