Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit the teahouse dressed in his bathrobe (as a substitute for a kimono) and drink tea while gazing quietly at the lotus pond. He has been suspicious of the geishas' morals, but he learns that they are respectable girls whose only job is to sing, dance and listen to people's troubles, shake their heads sympathetically and coax the customers into good spirits...
...graduation ceremonies across the nation last week, the Class of 1951-some 380,000 strong-settled back on its folding chairs to listen to the traditional advice from its elders. It was, observed President Charles W. Cole of Amherst, rather a special class. "It is in some senses the first truly postwar class, since it entered the university . . . after demobilization was complete . . . It is the first class to graduate into the second half of the 20th Century. It is the first class that will hold its 50th reunion in the 21st Century, in the year 2001." But on almost every...
...dream grew. In 1936 Koussy and the orchestra began playing concerts at the Berkshire summer symphonic festivals. Four years later, he became head of Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center. At Tanglewood, students and laymen came each year to play, to listen and to learn. There they also could see their benevolent chief, wearing his favorite tweed cape, strolling along the lanes and chattering in his broken English...
...musically inclined or the merely curious will probably head for Symphony Hall in Boston tonight to guzzle cocktails, eat supper, and listen to Arthur Fielder lead the Pops Orchestra. Meanwhile the younger set (ages 10 through 15) will hang around the Union, play games, and watch movies...
...Communism. Unfortunately, Shaw makes these points more as a pamphleteer than a novelist. His book moves smoothly, but his characters are papery and stiff. For all his craft and good will, Novelist Shaw never quite creates the illusion that he is writing about people who breathe air, or even listen to what...