Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nick was popular and a paradox. On the surface, he was a roughhewn hellion, who prided himself in dressing sloppily, once showed up barefooted for a publicity picture. But Nick also had the squad's best scholastic record and liked to listen by the hour to classical operatic recordings. Planing to and from games, he would entertain his teammates by braying in a gravelly baritone the brokenhearted clown's famous lament from I Pagliacci...
...Father Feeney has defied this ban, and his tight, loyal band of followers has ignored the interdict. The Center, called by its inhabitants a "Catholic Ghetto," is now a school where his supporters work and study and listen to his preachings...
...front of the prompter's box and do their daily dozen. They want acting. They want dramatic realism. Munsel and some others are representatives of a young generation of singers who are really singing actors." Patrice's manager, Sol Hurok, says with box-office candor: "You can listen with your eyes open...
...people who listen to scheduled college football games listen only because this or that college name is involved? Or do they listen because they are interested in a football team? The answer is obvious, and it applies to performances by independent undergraduate groups as well. People listen to or watch these-performances only because they represent good entertainment, not because of the prestige attached to the name of any institution...
Crowda left Cambridge--Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and all in all 47,000 attended the game and countless others stayed in rooms to listen to the first He in the series since...