Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembers the testimony of a certain wise man who had come to live among us after the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the venerable and heroic scholar Leo S. Baeck, onetime Chief Rabbi of Berlin. A score or so of American intellectuals-novelists, historians, poets, political writers-had gathered to listen to him; and after some talk of Goethe and Nietzsche and Mann, one voiced the question in all minds: "Can what happened in Germany happen here...
...quiet, thoughtful way, gives McCarthy credit where credit is due (although McCarthy, of course, complained that Schmitt was trying to "smear" him). "I've heard more common sense tonight than I have for a long time," said one housewife who sat up until 2 a.m. to listen to Schmitt...
...even TV has cut into the 600-700 letters a week written by Let's Pretend fans. In some families, three generations listen to the familiar, often-repeated stories enacted by Nila's casts,' largely juvenile. Cinderella, the favorite, has been given 22 times in as many years. Runners-up are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast and what Nila persists in calling-in near-blasphemous defiance of Walt Disney and the brothers Grimm-Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Poland), he joined the Kaiser's army in 1914; six months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels in 1932: "The whole National Socialist movement is only a lasting appeal to all that is worst...
Swedish & Swahili. Pinto, who had hunted spies in World War I, had first-rate qualifications for his job. He could ask, look and listen in Dutch, Flemish, English, French, German and Italian, and also had "a competent working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Rumanian and Swahili." For places, faces and cases, Pinto's memory was tenacious: he can still remember "not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and at what time of day they arrived." Stored in his mind like a library of microfilms were detailed pictures...