Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controlled by local militias since February. The army units converged on the "green line," the dread boundary splitting the city, and bulldozed its makeshift banks of dirt and rubble. The city's airport is scheduled to open this week for the first time in five months. "When I hear the first plane fly into Beirut, I will know the very worst is over," said Khalil Deir, a Lebanese barber...
...Washington Monument stood white above the deep summer green of the trees. Reagan squinted and smiled and soothed. "Scoop believed in arms control, but he refused to support any initiative that would not ensure the survival of the West." Remember that, fellow citizens, when you hear cries from the timid to rush to the table with the Soviets. "Scoop never stopped speaking out against anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union," said Reagan. "And he was never afraid to speak out against anti-Semitism at home. Scoop Jackson just would not be bullied." Let the people contemplate the Democrats' anguish...
...hardly a person more qualified than Daniel to write such a book. Through both his personal life (especially as Truman's son-in-law) and his professional he covered events ranging from World War II to Watergate he has met more dignitaries than most people care even to hear about. He capitalizes on this background, going out to his way to avoid writing the type of book you would expect from the former managing editor of the Times. He writes not of the inner-workings of the great crises he covered, nor of the interior powerplays of the Times wich...
This discovery underscores the connections between Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, the other hero of Ulysses. For it is Bloom who utters the word that Stephen wishes to hear: "Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred." The fact that he does so when Stephen is not present makes their later meeting and parting more poignant and ironic...
When journalists hear journalists claim a "larger truth," they really ought to go for their pistols. The New Yorker's Alastair Reid said the holy words last week: "A reporter might take liberties with the factual circumstances to make the larger truth clear." O large, large truth. Apparently Mr. Reid believes that imposing a truth is the same as arriving at one. Illogically, he also seems to think that truths may be disclosed through lies. But his error is more fundamental still in assuming that large truth is the province of journalism in the first place. The business...