Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welcome, good people, watch and listen To a play in praise of the prophet Daniel, Beloved of the Lord. Long has he dwelt In brick Babylon, built by a river, Far from Jerusalem, his real home...
Discussing European problems further, Finletter commented that the U.S. should "listen much more sympathetically than we have to proposals such as the Rapacki Plan." He supported the Polish program of setting up an "atom-weapon-free zone on either side of the dividing line in Europe," as this would not reduce Western military strength relative to the Soviets and would ease Russian worries about missile sites close to their territory...
Astounding Thing. Day after his dramatic announcement of success, the President hurried into Press Secretary Hagerty's office to listen with newsmen to a playback of his taped message. Ike's amazement was written all over his face as he sat in Hagerty's chair, cocked his ear toward the loudspeaker, heard the eerie sound of his voice coming from 400 miles above the earth. Turning to the reporters, he said: "That's one of the astounding things again in this age of invention. Maybe the next thing they'll do is televise pictures down...
...alarming rustle of inattention among spectators. "What I like about R. & H.," says General Stage Manager Jimmy Hammerstein, Oscar's No. 2 son, "is that they're conditioned to what works. If it works, they keep it in; if it doesn't, they scrap it. They listen with real objective ears...
Comforters & Comforted. "We attempt-millions of us, the psychiatrists say-to justify the inexplicable misery of the world by taking the guilt upon ourselves, as Job attempted to take it: 'Show me my guilt, O God.' We even listen, as Job did, to the Comforters. [But where] Job's Comforters undertook to persuade him, against the evidence of his own inner conviction, that he was guilty, ours attempt to persuade us that we are not-that we cannot be-that, for psychological reasons, or because everything is determined in advance by economic necessity anyway, or because...