Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student growing up in a segregated but, as she remembers it, happy Portsmouth neighborhood. Even as a child singing in her Protestant church choir, she was something special. Remembers Voice Teacher Charles % Varney, who first heard her sing when she was eight: "It was a shock to me to hear this tiny little thing singing so beautifully. I went to her later and told her God had blessed her, and she must always, always sing...
Wanda: Correcto, Ralph. One book talks about a husband who says "I love you" only when he is naked and horizontal. Another claims that men want to hear "I love you" only once, whereas women want to hear it more than once. It recommends that men say "I love you" three times in a row. That advice appears in The Silicon Syndrome: How to Survive a High-Tech Relationship, by Jean Hollands, but it's really too rough a book to discuss with you, recalcitrant...
Wanda: Let's say I come home and say, "What a day I had!" Nine times out of ten you will say, "Your day! Wait till you hear about my day!" That's no good. What you have to do is ask two concerned questions and recapitulate the emotions I am expressing. It's supposed to go something like this: "What a day I had!" "I figured something was wrong when you weren't home at 6. What happened?" "My boss is putting a lot of pressure on me." "You sound really upset. What kind of pressure is he putting...
...There's a lot of talk that one didn't hear only a few years ago," says Glenn Loury, 37, a political economist at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "It's driven by a combination of circumstances: things are bad and getting worse for a significant fraction of the black community in the big cities, and there has been a palpable failure of the old classical strategies to produce results." Loury has become the most vocal member of what might be called the post-civil rights thinkers. The group also includes William Julius Wilson, 49, a University...
...were voiced last week as Indians marked the first anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. In New Delhi there was sadness as an estimated 500,000 people gathered, amid tight security, on the sprawling lawns of the New Delhi Boat Club to hear her son and successor, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, compare his mother's "sacrifices" with those of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who led India's drive for independence from Britain. Wearing a bulletproof vest and standing near an 80-ft.-high picture of his mother, the Prime Minister declared that Indira Gandhi...