Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John William Gardner, 54, the so-and-so once removed from Ribicoff (former Cleveland Mayor Anthony Celebrezze came in between), takes wry pleasure in recalling the bloodcurdling things he heard about his sprawling domain when he first took over in August 1965. Then he adds: "I think that people just don't say that any more...
...money, you might as well do things that amuse you. It takes me a long time to write a piece of music -anywhere from months to years-and simple ideas would bore me before I got through. Anyway, I want to invent something I haven't heard before...
...complained. The startled dean talked soothingly until Umrath calmed down, discovered that his caller was a non-alumnus who had come to admire the school through attending its concerts and plays. Said delighted but flabbergasted Chancellor Eliot: "We had never asked Mr. Umrath for money; we had never even heard of Mr. Umrath"-who eventually came through with a gift...
...really has happened at Berkeley. Students and faculty, although their ideas are miles apart, are at least talking in the same terms -- and about the same thing. Non-students, on the other hand, are increasingly isolated; their appeals -- above and beyond what most students want -- are the most widely heard, however...
...only in anticipation, and millenium-old progroms accumulate a terribly immediate horror from the comparison. "The Germans were not alone in their fury." Finally, she narrates in stoical understand language the Mississippi murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and poses devastatingly the question: "Can we say/ Now we have heard enough? Can we say the history is done...