Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From its inception in 1963, AAAAS had sought the addition of more courses exploring the facets of the Black experience to the university curriculum. But the administration, stating that the academic merit of such courses was questionable, turned a deaf car to the organization. As time passed, their demands changed from that of merely adding a few courses to that of establishing an entire department...
...their poetry behind electric guitars and blaring amplifiers. They have deliberately, if not consciously, chosen media that the Establishment does not hear or understand. That way their messages come through unwarped and uncensored. The 19th century Russian poets and novelists did the same thing in order to bypass a deaf and irrelevant Establishment...
About 200 years ago there was emerging a great nation in the British Empire, and it found itself with a colony in violent protest by its youth-men such as Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, to name a few. Their protests fell on deaf ears, and finally led to war. The outcome is history. If we read history, it clearly shows that youth in its protest must be heard. Let us show them we can solve our problems in an enlightened and positive manner...
Corporate leaders are indeed concerned. Though enraged dissidents often make dialogue impossible, they are forcing executives to think about questions that most managers once considered beyond the scope of corporate conscience. Wallace G. Taylor, president of Formica Corp., says that businessmen are "deaf, dumb and blind to a hydraheaded new-American revolution that is tearing this country asunder, value by value." How, asks Taylor, "can a country whose business is business continue to be deaf to its own youth and blind to a war that is rapidly turning this country into one of the poor nations...
SEALE: As the grievances of the people mount up, as the Fascist pig avaricious demagogic ruling class turn their deaf ears to what the people want, then many people I believe will use quite a bit more violence against the system. A lot of people are trying to say the violence is against white people...