The work is symphonic in scope, and the adagio - the section I happened upon on the radio - is gripping.
Believed to be one of the first concerts of electronic music, the piece, being composed entirely of sounds chanced upon via the radio waves, is one that can not be predicted nor faithfully replicated.
Upon hearing on the radio that "Uncle Sam Needs You" just as her son is being drafted into the Army during World War II, she shrieks in Yiddish: "Who is he, that Uncle Sam? Him I would especially like to send six feet under!" Esther Malkah's experience and her worldview become a touchstone for Podhoretz's own journey toward fully realizing identity as an American.
He knows that because his troops have been fired upon and taunted over the radio as infidels and American militias.
It only took hearing one solo by Eric Dolphy (whose name I had never previously heard) to know that he was a visionary of the first order; I knew upon hearing, at random on the radio, the scherzo of Beethoven's last quartet that it was a work of a cosmic strangeness.
Pop quiz: what is your personal best record for speed in changing the radio station upon hearing the opening notes of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" (or Adam Sandler's Hanukkah song, which I happen to love but I feel you if you don't)?
Passive information behavior consists of situations in which a person receives information without actively searching for it (e.g., listening to the radio, stumbling upon an item when surfing on a news website).
Arbitron, the measurement company that the radio industry relies upon, does not release national ratings the way that Nielsen does for television.
Or, as the Party History Institute of the Central Committee put it, "Comrade Kim Il Sung, the ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, military strategic genius," went on the radio and called upon the Korean people "to rise as one in the sacred struggle for wiping out the U.S. imperialist armed invaders and their stooges".
Well, the Radio Times called upon statistician and Strictly fan Elkie Symes to take a look at the all judges' scores from the last 12 series and calculate which celebrity is statistically the best dancer to have graced the Strictly dancefloor.
