Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watching 250 people pack Emerson Hall on a warm Thursday evening for the poetry reading he has organized, Haviaras feels a mixture of nervous excitement and dread--dread that there will not be enough room for the crods who have come to hear James Merrill and Seamus Heaney read...
Perhaps the most tragic version of the "See no evil, hear no evil" syndrome is the self-applied one. People are not only adept at disbelieving others' horror stories: they are equally good at repressing memories of indignities and damage inflicted upon themselves, even when they are painfully cognizant of the injustice involved...
Harvard has been eminently reasonable about the whole project, holding a series of meetings to hear community concern about the issue, as well as offering to donate about $300,000 to go towards tress, landscaping, and a mini-park to spruce up the Broadway St. site. It is even offering to pay the city $16,000 a year for "air rights" over the public street. What we have here is not a pay-off, but legalized extortion...
Students say they have yet to hear satisfactory response. "He's bad a whole year to think about it and I think that's enough," said Damon A. Silvers...
...stop here on Saturday any more.' " The only thing needed to make the decay of the telephone service even more exasperating is the same pollution that afflicts the Postal Service, not junk mail but phone calls from computers that summon you out of the bathtub to hear their spiels for more life insurance. The Internal Revenue Service has even acquired computers that will telephone an alleged delinquent all day long until he answers...