Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week the House of Commons will debate proposed legislation that would set up a tribunal to hear complaints about unauthorized government surveillance. Those sympathetic to the intelligence services believe that limited parliamentary supervision is the only way to stop leaks while restoring public confidence. Said Labor's shadow home secretary, Gerald Kaufman: "As long as the government refuses to treat these matters with the seriousness they deserve, people will understandably believe that it has something to hide...
...presided over the magazine since 1952, when he succeeded the sometimes choleric founding editor, Harold Ross. On Friday afternoon last week, "Mr. Shawn," as he is invariably called, slowly walked down the staircase from his 19th-floor office to the 18th floor, where staffers had assembled to hear the melancholy news. Standing on a stairwell landing, his voice wobbly with emotion, Shawn read from a single sheet of paper. After announcing the board's decision, he pointedly added that "the editorial staff was not a party to the negotiations . . . We were not asked for our approval...
...Gretzky, reaching that bracing elevation, can actually feel a shift in temperature. "When the play isn't so great, my hands are cold and my feet are freezing. But when it's really good, I can't get enough cold, it's so hot. And then I don't hear anything except the sound of the puck and the stick...
LAST WEEK, Harvard's fourth annual Women's History Week drew substantial attendance and enthusiasm, as it has in the past. But the crowds who flocked to hear Nancy Cott speak on feminist theory only reemphasized the rarity of such an event on campus. The fact remains that the University still has virtually no means of accommodating students who want to study women's history or any other aspect of "women's studies." Such a program is long overdue at Harvard; its absence is a gap that must be filled...
...Undergraduate Council's social committee and head of the subcommittee which will choose the hand, said that all bands that consist of at least 50 percent Harvard students are eligible. Brady and the other five social committee members will hear each band and will try to choose a band that plays danceable music "with a little originality and style." The committee will make its decision on March...