Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapons now on order. Administration floor leaders warned urgently that the spending limit would force the military to slow down delivery on $6 billion worth of equipment which U.S. manufacturers were finally geared to turn out-tanks, guns, guided missiles and especially aircraft. But the House refused to listen, and passed the amendment by a 90-vote majority of Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...point to 2,000,000 daily readers to back up its opinion. The News is constantly reminded of its own vulgar virtues-sometimes from rather surprising quarters. The latest was a series of articles (just published as a book) in FORTUNE, by William H. Whyte Jr., called Is Anybody Listening?-an attack on the confused and confusing manner in which U.S. business generally expresses itself. Pointing to itself with pride as an example of how to do it, the News approvingly listed its own rules for getting people to listen...
Italian radio listeners are in full revolt. Not only are they injured by a tax of nearly $4 a year for each set, they are also insulted by virulent commercials. Last month, the Association of Italian Radio Listeners (200,000 members) sued Radio Audizioni Italiane, the government-controlled monopoly which runs Italian radio, demanding relief either from the commercials or the tax. The association's lawyers brought with them a recording of one day's output of commercials. Samples: a Baby Snooks-like voice whining: "Mama! I want my little cheese!", sounds of hacking coughs, throat clearing...
...millions who will listen to Sheen's words, the meaning of Easter in mid-20th century should be particularly significant. For modern man seems to live in a Good Friday age. Sheen believes that man, his faith in God shaken, has retreated within his own self, but has found there no peace, only shallow and temporary comforts. Disillusioned by a welter of scientific and political cure-alls, he looks for resurrection, but too often he wants it without sacrifice and before death -"promises of salvation without a cross, abandonment without sacrifices, Christ without His nails." Adds Sheen: "There...
...ideas, but the comics use only an outline for a script and make up most of the gags as they go along. They will earn about $150,000 apiece in 1952, but they insist that there is nothing difficult about their art. Explains Bob: "All we do is listen to the radio and watch...