Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Scammon, who may have studied more elections than any other political student in Washington, issued one of his warnings about the New Hampshire primary and favored Contender Walter Mondale, who had triumphed so dramatically in Iowa the week before. But most of us did not hear what Scammon said, or did not fully appreciate it. The Iowa system of caucus voting for presidential candidates is radical, explained Scammon. The lowans attending their caucuses gather in groups according to candidate preference. Theirs is an open vote, easy prey for zealous organizers and subject to a wide range of human pressures...
Although the acting and special effects sometimes border on the maudlin, this production of Long Day's Journey Into Night is in general perceptive. We can almost hear the ominous lowing of the foghorn, almost sense the hovering fog which Mary finds so protective: "It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel everything has changed and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find you or touch you anymore." While this play offers no solutions or hopes for this family, it is thought-provoking and, for the most part, a highly depressing...
Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison, Jr. '62 introduced Rivlin as "Dr. Straight, explaining that she has "a well deserved reputation for telling people things they don't want to hear...
...attempt to capture the larger screen (High Road to China came first). His dimpled affability has garnered an affectionate viewership, and enabled him to walk through weekly episodes of a standard-issue television series: geniality, however, is of negligible value during cinematic scenes which grind so slowly, one can hear crew members in the background phoning home for late dinners...
...Christians trace their heritage directly to Jesus. People from the coastal cities of Sidon and Tyre went to Galilee to hear Christ preach, and on at least one occasion Jesus visited what is now southern Lebanon. Later the Apostle Paul spent a week in Tyre, where the first Christian church is believed to have been established. By the 5th century, the region was solidly Christian. So it remained until 200 years later, when Muslim invaders conquered much of the Middle East and North Africa. Many Christian communities along the coast converted to Islam, but the mountains remained a Christian redoubt...