Word: hear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unorthodox as the first. Kennedy and McCarthy may eventually succeed only in canceling each other out, but together, their challenge of party discipline and the response it has evoked have had a rippling effect in which Lyndon Johnson's departure is merely one large circle. Political leaders hear all too loudly the bubbling of events, and sense the need to respond...
Instead of being condemned to an imbecile's life in an asylum, Helen Keller learned to read and hear with her fingers, and by touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe...
...Last week, shortly before her 88th birthday, Helen Keller died in her home at Easton, Conn. Soon after entering college, she wrote: "A potent force within me, stronger than the persuasion of my friends, had impelled me to try my strength by the standards of those who see and hear." Her success in that test is her epitaph...
...yell back. I am told that those on the ground are Jocks from "Beta" (the Jock fraternity). The Pukes in Carmen are egging them on. This scene has happened in altered form a couple of times before, I am told; and the Jocks are both serious and dangerous. To hear what they're yelling, we walk quietly (so they won't really notice) to within a door of Beta. A Jock yells, "You lousy Puke motherfuckers." He mocks them with their own rhetoric. A Puke screams back more of the same and adds that they're stupid...
...publication boasts of the fact; it even calls itself Square. "It hasn't been easy to be a square for the past several years," the first issue of the glossy quarterly complains. "To see citizens crowding around the swill of sex and cynicism, garnering applause. To hear others venerate corrupt intelligence and receive congratulations for it. But then one day, when someone snorted scornfully, 'Whadda you, some kinda square?' . . . 'Yes,' said we proudly...