Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room. The show has some pleasantly simple dance numbers, but more that are noisy and elaborate. One or two songs are nice enough to listen to, but there are none worth talking about. The sketches, always the most important part of a revue, are by & large the deadliest part of this...
...every student in the hall knew, 67-year-old Historian Hayes was indeed leaving his class. As student and teacher, he had been at Columbia for exactly 50 years -"seven years listening to other people and 43 years with other people having to listen to me." Last week, at term's end, it was time for him to retire...
...Dealers as the Hubert Humphreys, the Matt Neelys and the Claude Peppers, Paul Douglas walks a lonely way. Unlike them he is no predictable doctrinaire. He is a liberal who has learned a healthy skepticism of the liberal cliches, a deeply emotional man who has taught his heart to listen to his head, a crusader who has learned when to fight and when to compromise. Two of the Senators he most respects are Republicans: New Hampshire's able and liberal Charles Tobey, and Ohio's conservative Robert Taft, whom Douglas regards as a Bourbon, but also...
...vast, golden dome, Cripps, in a dark business suit,* seemed a tiny black speck as he walked stiffly up the marble staircase to the red-canopied pulpit. Said Insomniac Cripps: "When in the stillness of the night we face the tremendous dangers of the modern world, let us listen for the still small voice of God which can instill courage, calm and strength into our hearts . . . Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow I die . . . may smack of boldness and bravado, but it is singularly unconvincing in the still small hours of the night...
Bunkum & Nonsense. Almost as if to prove it, thousands of disciples-mostly women-used to gather to listen to his lectures on "truth and love." Reverent old women and awe-struck businessmen would crowd around him to touch his hand or coat. Two years ago, close to 50 and still handsome, Krishnamurti returned to India and relative obscurity, still lecturing with the help of a few wealthy followers. Last week he was in the news again, involved in one of India's rare cases of marital dissolution...