Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoagy Carmichael, a lean little man with a smile that wrinkles his eyes, played the piano in the Lowell House dining room Monday night. There were pretzels and potato chips and free beer on the serving tables, and most of the house came down to listen...
...momentous story tells of a discharged soldier, half swashbuckler and half misanthrope, who wanders upon a market town to find it conducting a witch hunt. In an effort, both altruistic and egoistic, to divert attention from the unknown "witch" to himself, he bellows to anybody who will listen that he has committed murder and insists on being hanged. But once he sees the young and beguiling witch, he is willing to be cleared of murder and in a fair way to be cured of misanthropy...
Like many another postwar Frenchman, Jean Paul David used to read his daily newspaper with skepticism, listen to his radio without confidence, and wonder with suspicion what the Communists were going to ask him to believe next. A husky, energetic Radical Socialist deputy, David resented Communist abuse of truth, decided to do something about...
Like the handful of other coaches who have stuck to the single-wing, Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell long had to listen to alumni and fellow coaches who wanted to know when he was going to get hep to the T. This season Caldwell has been hearing less & less of that question. His single-wing team has averaged 440 yards a game this year, is still unbeaten and, with Cornell out of the way and only Yale ahead to threaten it seriously, has its best chance in 15 years of ending the season unbeaten...
...Volume in Detail." His basic campaign tactic, Taft explained to his aides, was "volume in detail." He was trying to reach those people-the great majority, he figured-who would not turn out for a political mass meeting, but would listen to a candidate if he came to them. If he kindled no prairie fires, he at least engendered some sober interest...