Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American riving in Brazil, I felt great pride as I listened to Mondale's concession speech. It was one of the most beautiful examples of our democracy in action. Brazilians were emotionally moved to hear the defeated candidate rally his adherents to support the newly re-elected President...
Economic growth areas of the future include the computer industry, health care, leisure and entertainment fields, and law, Naisbitt said, adding. "I used to think there were enough lawyers--now I hear they're using them instead to mice in experiments...
...polite, carefully tailored lecturer ministering to the declining health of Western culture. His plays, including Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk, won him increased fame, as did his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. In 1956, 14,000 people gathered in Minneapolis to hear him speak on "The Frontiers of Criticism...
...Father] did not like to talk about how these things felt: he did not like to talk about human emotions. He did talk, often eloquntly, about human behavior. Are they really the same? I don't think so. My father's intense concentration on what you can see and hear and smell and touch was at the core of his gift as a writer. He focused on the surface and texture of life, not on the emotions and motives underneath. In creative-writing classes, teachers always say that it is important to "show" and not "tell." My father's work...
...owner of an answering machine knows that there may come a moment when the machine, for all its customary obedience, will disgorge, in a weird, surreal monologue, all the messages accumulated over months and months: disjointed voices, greetings and arguments and appointments long dead. And then one might hear a voice one does not recognize: a sort of gypsy croak, a voodoo voice, heavily accented and far away: "Please call. .. Eeet eees verrrry imporrrtant!" A cold gust goes through the room...