Word: heard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This permissiveness extends to the notion that both students and their teachers are "equal partners in education" or that both are "exploring together" and "learn from each other." Nonsense, replies Barzun--no undergraduate has anything valuable to say to a Ph.D. about his chosen field which he has not heard already. Though many students are bright, he concedes, they are all inarticulate. They have "no responsibility to words or logic." Their writing is garble, their medium is sabotage, their ethos is rudeness, and their morals are those of a pig sty. They expect honesty from adults, but not from themselves...
Second, after splitting into the three groups, each group went down to the baths. The boy had heard about the baths before coming to Esalen. He would later find out that in one of the other two groups two people had stayed in the baths after the group left and made love. He would also find out that in October, 1968, when the vibes at Esalen had been highest, there had been as many as three different couples making love next to each other, on the rest tables next to the baths, in the middle of the afternoon...
Matthew S. Meselson, Harvard professor of Biology, who will be speaking on biological warfare at M.I.T. during the work stoppage, said yesterday that he had not heard much talk about the protest at Harvard. Explaining his participation in the protest, he said, "I think that there is very little way for people to find out with any authoritativeness just what purposes science is used...
While Stoppard's play could probably not have been written before Beckett come along, it is every bit a peer for Waiting for Godot. The comic and tragic elements, brilliant in themselves, are ingeniously balanced and woven into the Hamlet framework. The dialogue flows like nothing I've heard in a long time, and Stoppard uses the English language with more precision than any other playwright around...
Police speculate that the murder took place sometime Tuesday night. Police dogs were sent to the area to see if they could pick up a scent. Officers went through the building talking to residents in an attempt to learn if anyone had heard unusual noises or seen a stranger on the premises...