Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year at a time when most bands are having trouble. He is happy to pass on his formula to other orchestra leaders: "Just as soon as bands are willing to play for the public instead of themselves, they will have plenty of people ready to dance and listen to them...
...Elliott) and Ray (Goulding), are a study in opposites. Pint-sized Bert is a gabby, obnoxious supersalesman who shouts his commercials, scolds the audience and continually squelches Stringbean Harry. After a few seconds of bumptious Bert, viewers feel so sorry for well-meaning Harry that they listen carefully to every word he has to say. A New Jersey woman even wrote in to upbraid the brewery for the "loud, offensive" way in which Bert bullies his brother...
Alcoholism has not reached Harvard. In the summer, each week, the students gather in the Yard--a word which be special privilege replace the "campus" of other colleges--to drink fruit punch and listen to the symphonies of Tchaikovsky of Brahms...
...most home debates today draw few if any spectators. Where Sanders was occasionally filled for one of the annual Triangular Debates with Yale and Princeton, the Ames Courtroom last Friday night held no more than 100 spectators. "Today, people can read about the great question of the day, or listen over the raido, more easily than they could in 1900," one student explained. "But while an audience would be good for the ego, it isn't necessary to make debating worthwhile...
...meet changing consumer needs and desires much in the same way Detroit's automakers turn out an annual model change. And like the automen, who quickly caught on to postwar yearnings for longer, lower, higher-horsepowered cars, so U.S. homebuilders must ask the man who owns one, and listen to his ideas...