Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students have to risk expulsion and declare virtual war on Harvard to be given a high priority? The University drives students to adopt extreme tactics, which it then claims to abhor, by blocking all alternative routes. Rational arguments fall on deaf ears. Undergraduate Council studies take light-years to reach wishy-washy conclusions. Sporadic demonstrations may elicit a statement of support, but only self-destructive take-overs and the like really get high-priority status...
...been spent," he says, "and where my various pets are buried. Everything kind of spreads out from there." Now the new house is for sale, and he and Merula are comforting themselves with a wry, Guinness-style logic: "We're going to be so old and blind and deaf by the time the road gets there that maybe we won't notice it." Old age seems a long way off for such a quick mind, and those eyes and ears, which have missed nothing for the past 50 years, will remain keen and amused for years to come...
...argument falls on deaf ears. The debate over the legitimacy of AIA is political, and AIA isn't about to recognize the liberal perspective. However, one can challenge AIA on its own ground by challenging the accuracy of AIA's equating of classroom and newspaper...
...July 1982, has faded as Shultz has continued to prevail over the more voluble personalities who once seemed to have more influence. The second opinion, though it still thunders through Washington, has failed to convince anyone except the right-wingers who voice it regularly; it has fallen on notably deaf ears at the White House. And so more and more people who once belittled him as hopelessly bland or philosophically out of step are now accepting the third image of Shultz. One by one, his more assertive rivals find themselves relegated to the sidelines while Shultz's views are heard...
EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS remain deaf to all this reasoning. They seem to prefer continued strong ties to the "hard-line" Arab states and favor leaving the role of "terrorism policeman" to the United States. But the time may come when Americans balk at this burden, and the time may also come when Europeans find themselves extremely vulnerable to more than just terrorism. Continued appeasement of men like Khadafy entails many risks, not the least of which is the strengthening of radical hands in the Arab balance of power...