Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initiative. Obviously a Southerner, he said "I'm a Democrat, as you can tell from my accent." Representative Vaitses spoke up, "Judging from your accent you're not the same type of Democrat we have here." Faintly heard above the laughter was Chairman Conte advising Hardee "Aw, don't listen to that...
...swamped with long hairs who want announcing jobs" and advertisers who say they can't do anything in twenty seconds. But there are more serious problems facing the station. Subscription financing may fade out after the initial enthusiasm wears off. WCRB's license allows only daylight operation which listen is to the unresponsive "housewife audience...
French diplomats thought that President Auriol would be just the man for Americans to listen to. A cheerful, bubbling extrovert with a good, plain-spoken word for everybody, Auriol looks and acts like the mayor of a thriving French town (which he was for 15 years) or like a man who would enjoy a musical evening with Harry Truman. (Auriol plays the violin.) On his only previous visit to Washington, as a member of the 1925 Franco-American War Debts Commission, Auriol shocked his superiors by running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has a responsibility to its audience as well as to its members. Performing a warhorse like the Brahms Symphony does not do any great service to an audience that can listen to countless professional performances of it. Surely it would be better policy to program something that is less frequently played and incidentally cannot be so easily compared to the work of professional ensembles. The Orchestra has achieved a level of excellence that does not need to be substantiated by playing one of the "standard works...
...Race, for the additional millions who will crowd around television sets to watch the telecast made by every camera which the B. B. C. can transport to the river, for the charwomen and university professors and factory workers and Members of Parliament who will cease all other activities to listen to the broadcast of The Boat Race, for the Oxford and Cambridge men and women all over the world who eagerly await the result of The Boat Race, for the glory of being pointed out deferentially for all time as "Rowing Blues," for the non-professional coaches who have worked...