Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some movie fans just won't settle for sitting through endless reruns of their idol's films or collecting faded photographs. San Francisco Restaurateur Frederick Reeve has always had a passion for Humphrey Bogart, and when he heard of plans to scrap Bogie's African Queen, the grand old tub in which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country...
Students are demanding the right to be heard on committees that change curriculums, shift degree requirements and grading practices. There is little doubt that they can make an immense contribution to such planning-and there is no question about the justice of their claim that many courses are, indeed, irrelevant. Harvard's law faculty is pleased with a student-initiated drive that liberalized its once-rigid curriculum, added numerous elective courses...
Right to Be Heard. Students have also proved highly effective in enforcing campus rules through their own court systems at campuses such as the University of Pennsylvania. Committees at both Wisconsin and Berkeley have even urged that administrators stay out of the disciplinary process on the theory that this sets administrators against students, cripples their leadership and guidance capabilities...
...easy give-and-take of discussions. At his Episcopal church in Ignacio, Calif., Vicar Charles Gompertz occasionally stirs up dialogue by stationing a "plant" in the congregation. During a sermon, the plant may stand up and yell: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Says Gompertz: "It really blows their minds...
...second half of the program was gratifying for optimists who stayed through intermission. They heard a spicy dialogue between two great composers of the twentieth century. Le Tombeau de Couperin is Ravel's impression of the traditional dance suite, and it is neatly shaped to an ideal of grace and delicacy. Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, is perhaps a suitable answer to the Ravel, built, as it is, on the idea of the anti-dance dance. It has been made into a ballet despite the fact that its tantalizing rhythms and harmonies are meant to make the listener...