Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncommitted delegates are waiting for actual poll results. All of them, however, are carefully testing the candidates' effect on public opinion. They listen to the sharp exchanges on the Texas delegation steal, read the speeches and watch Taft and Ike on TV. The delegates know that they can pick a nominee at Chicago without reference to what the people want. But the delegates also know that only the people can pick a President...
...Listen & Learn. When he was eleven, Napoleon ran away to New Orleans, began working out his own way of playing the trumpet ("I was playing before Louis Armstrong got out of the Waif's Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...
...Society of Friends of the Concertgebouw were deemed expert enough to judge the power and precision of the grinders, their genius with operatic potpourris, popular marches, sentimental fluff. The judges toured the pierement line in a black-and-yellow carriage, while thousands of Amsterdammers jostled to watch and listen. The first inspection was, for exterior shine; next came a look at the innards. Finally, while the crowds cheered their favorites and mocked at breakdowns, the judges cocked an ear to the music and an eye to grinding technique...
Hoover spent a few bitter and silent years after the country discarded him. Few people cared whether he had anything to say or not. Now a large number of people think he is right, so that even those who disagree with him listen to him with uneasy attention. He is an embarrassing old man who cannot be squelched. At 77, the Chief says invincibly: "They're not going to shut...
...quarries, Paolo has been drawing since he can remember. At five he was copying animals out of children's books, putting together weird composites, later ducked school to ramble around the countryside drawing whatever caught his fancy. He took no art lessons, shunned all advice. "He would never listen to me," says his father, Aldo Buttini. Instead, Paolo read art books and tramped through museums soaking up the masters' techniques...