Word: overhearer
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...almost supernatural power which an artist should have over his audience, leading it into a trance-like state. "When I play a lot of concerts," he says, "I know in which places I allow the audience to turn their pages. The public can't hear it, they have to overhear it. When the public listens badly and doesn't pay attention, you have to do something. Your fantasies, your heart must...
...vast parade") and a sharp eye for cracks in fine facades ("It seems that Mr. Randolph would declare for King James if only the King would then make nun comfortable in the office of attorney general"). The diarist, it develops, had the rare good luck to overhear a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Colonel George Washington and Prince Charles in which the master of Mount Vernon, although not hostile, remained uncharmed and uncommitted. Samuel Johnson is found to have made an otherwise unnoticed trip to the New World, and Patrick Henry and Tom Paine are implicated in a plot to assassinate...
...hero (Hugh Franklin) is a playwright. The playwright's young composer godson (David Dukes) is engaged to a tempestuous prima donna (Elizabeth Owens). Late one night godfather and godson overhear the lady, through paper-thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous session of lovemaking with an actor (Neil Flanagan). While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on a ruse. The guilty lovers, he will pre tend, had actually been rehearsing a play - which has still to be written...
...variety of subjects. With his family, he strolled and quipped his way through Lafayette Square Park ("Perfectly safe. No problem when you've got about ten Secret Service agents with you"), dined out on Crab Rangoon at Trader Vic's, invited newsmen into the Oval Office to overhear decisions of state, and advised Richard Helms, his new ambassador to Iran, that Iranian caviar was "the best in the world." Between the pleasantries and the public appearances, he also made and talked policy on a broad range of issues...
EVERY YEAR AT ABOUT this time you overhear the same conversation in the dining hall: "What's your thesis about?" "Well, it's sort of about--well, about appearance and reality." "Funny--mine's sort of about that, too." The old A-and-R theme--and you thought it was original. In difficult times like these, it can be a pleasant relief to get away to Boston and see a play that is explicitly and admittedly about appearance and reality...