Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program called the newcomer a basso, and he looked like a big one. But San Francisco operagoers, knowing that there are no great dramatic bassos around these days, sat back to listen in medium apathy. Next thing they knew, they were on the edge of their seats. Nicola Rossi-Lemeni was giving them Boris Godunov at the top of its style...
Intellectual Caviar. The people who want the highbrow Third Programme have never numbered more than 1,500,000, compared to the 45 million who listen to BBC's middlebrow Home network and the lowbrow Light Programme. But this small minority can tune in on the best brains, the best music and the best drama Britain can produce. Not all of the Third's intellectual caviar is equally palatable: it ranges from odd items like "An Ecologist among the Hopi" to Scientist Fred Hoyle's exciting series of lectures on the universe, which proved so popular that they...
...main moral and intellectual currents of U.S. thought, reading such odd combinations as a novel of Horatio Alger and Henry George's Progress and Poverty in the same week. Says White: "We're trying to turn out the kind of citizen who can read between lines and listen between words...
...help them read and listen, Mills has such top teachers as Sociologist George Hedley, Novelist Jessamyn West, and Composer Darius Milhaud. And this year more students than ever before are reading and listening-548 girls, 15% more than...
...Listen-I married because I love a warm living human man; my heart and soul wanted to make a warm living human home and grow in it babies, babies made by my husband and me ... Can a putrefied Charlemagne or a mummified Pharaoh protect and love and guide a living child? 'My daddy's three thousand years old. Yeth, we go to thee him in the museum thometimes. We thee hith toe poking out of the bandage, just like my big toe' . . . I am already a craven prehistoric cave woman of 1951. Thank God. At least...