Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lampooning Taft. A few of the attacks hit home, but some of the blows were foul, e.g., the insinuation that Taft was anti-Negro, that he was against a minimum wage. Other attacks were roundhouse swings, answerable only in the kind of detail no one had time to listen to during an election campaign. Mr. Republican was hit with everything that organized labor could find to throw...
...From other reaches of Ohio, Ferguson rasped: "I say these tactics should be stopped because I say we are sending our children to school to learn their lessons and not to listen to a lot of claptrap from some cheap politician...
...speed with which students fill Sanders Theatre for any musical events also indicates that many more than 400 want to listen to the Boston Symphony. And there is a great difference between the 90 cents a student pays for a rush ticket and the $8 he must put down for a new subscription. Finally, the Sanders concerts were designed by Henry Lee Higginson for the University "community," and any definition of a University community must include students...
Director General Sir William Haley sees the three basic services as a cultural pyramid up which the listener is led "from good to better." Ideally, listeners begin this cultural mountain climb by tuning into the Light Program. As its name implies, the Light is aimed at the great mass of people who would rather listen to Irving Berlin than Johann Sebastian Bach. Of all British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have...
Deep Roots. If the size of the listening audience is a true measure of a radio system's popularity, BBC outranks U.S. radio. Of Britain's 50 million people, 48 million are estimated to listen to BBC every week. Six million listeners (the equivalent of 18 million in the U.S.) heard Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; more than 7,000,000 listened for eight nights to a series of talks on atomic energy; Comedian Wilfred Pickles has an audience of 12-14 million, relatively far more than that of any U.S. comic...