Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair stood at attention as each one's national anthem was played and howitzers blasted an ear-splitting salute...
...hits some easy targets, but easy targets are often the largest ones, and hence worth hitting. For the most part, the short sketches are better than the long sketches, and the sketches in general better than the poems. But in one of his verses, "Soliloquy of Times Square," his ear--his feel for the way people think--appears, and magnificently...
...credit, he came to appreciate the concerns of his adversaries more than most Israel officials. His conviction that Jew and Arab must learn to live together and his personal involvement in the post-1967 military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip gave him a sympathetic ear for Palestinian claims. As Henry Kissinger observed last week, "I always thought he would be the one who would make peace, because he was the one who understood the Arabs...
...Mircea Eliade remains one of the world's great authorities on the myths and symbols of religion. Teaching and writing (more than 50 books), he has always had a sympathetic ear for the exotic, and even erotic, spiritual quests of the young. In this candid autobiography, covering his first 30 years, the historian portrays himself as a scapegrace whose enormous appetite for life embraced both the intellectual and the sensual...
When the Washington Post's "Ear" column passed along a rumor two weeks ago that the Reagans' guest quarters in Washington had been bugged just before last January's Inauguration, an outraged Jimmy Carter demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit. Last week the Post responded in print, with an editorial that may have set a new standard for journalistic sophistry. "There are a lot of 'we's' at the Washington Post," it began, "but the one you are about to hear from comes about as close as you can get to being...