Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new plan, a 13-member student-faculty board would hear cases "with no clear precedent." The Administrative Board would continue to hear the bulk of disciplinary cases. The CRR has been boycotted by students almost continuously since its inception...
...other war, they would have made movies about us too. Dateline: Hell!, Dispatch from Dong Ha, maybe even A Scrambler to the Front . . . But Viet Nam is awkward, everybody knows how awkward, and if people don't even want to hear about it, you know they're not going to pay money to sit there in the dark and have it brought up." So wrote Michael Herr in Dispatches, published in 1977, a year before the first spate of Viet Nam dramas. (The mid-'60s had offered a couple of World War II wheezes disguised as topical films: A Yank...
Some aides, in his defense, argue that Reagan was resorting to an old trick of gently turning aside unwelcome advice by telling stories, relevant or not. "It's very typical of him to deflect what he doesn't want to hear," says an intimate. But even if that is so, Reagan was still ducking the issue. Having initially embraced the concept of catastrophic health insurance, the President has avoided deciding an argument among his aides as to what type of plan to propose...
Having championed native American foods and wines in the '50s and '60s, when only the word imported had currency with pseudo gourmets, Fisher is now tiring of all the hype about native food. "If I hear any more about chic Tex- Mex or blue cornmeal, I'll throw up. And I've always hated goat cheese because it tastes like dirt," she says. About the present wave of young American chefs, she observes, "Of course they should be encouraged, but most are too young to be so famous. I think it takes twelve years of experience after graduation from...
...five Frenchmen and eleven other foreigners, including five Americans, now being held in Lebanon. The kidnaping underscored the frustration inherent in any attempt to gain freedom for those in the hands of terrorists. Informed of Auque's capture, Waite appeared stunned and said, "I am very, very sorry to hear that." He vowed, however, to continue his efforts to free kidnap victims...