Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted to bring in speakers who would forcefully raise issues. Translated into concrete terms, we wanted exciting speakers. Many lectures are not heard because they are dull. We want our lectures to be heard, so we have selected speakers who are not dull...
...what happens to students and how they react to what happens to them, Rudd drags in too many irrelevant historical events. He insisted Friday that the situation at Columbia was "directly analogous" to the long chronology of the German student movement that his audience listened to just before they heard him. Perhaps because the difficult struggle of revolution unites those of similar causes, Rudd feels sympathetic to the Germans. But to lump together two such different and complex situations as the same is one of the dogmas of the old academics that new thinkers of the New Left are supposed...
Vanderbilt's Alexander Heard: The university president is right smack in the vortex of a whole host of contentions and conflicts. It can be frustrating, and if you expect it to be rational, it can be maddening. But I am going to beat the job rather than let the job beat me-trying to be a university president is as important as anything in the country today...
...tied with the same umbilical cord." "Do you feel you have to participate?" one hat wearer asked his neighbor last week. "Yes," she replied. "Otherwise I'll lose my hat." "Lose my hat!" repeated Byars with delight. "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard...
What Barth is really up to can perhaps best be seen-or rather heard-in Glossolalia. He uses the mystical notion of speaking in tongues as a pointed metaphor in his guerrilla war against static literary forms. More a soothsayer's scripture than prose fiction, the piece mimics the ancient ritual that attempts to divine the truth with spontaneous word patterns and nonsense syllables. Concludes Barth: "The sense-lessest babble, could we ken it, might disclose a dark message, or prayer...