Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undergraduate guiltily sent off the required information, then began making inquiries about this woman he had never heard of. He discovered that she was an older woman, known by many, and that she had helped dozens of other undergraduates through bureaucratic tangles. He also discovered that she was active in the antiwar movement, that she had brought the house down at a 1970 rally in Sanders Theater...
...afternoon last April, in the central Maine town of Dover-Foxcroft (pop. 4,000), Charles MacArthur was standing beside the canal lock that feeds water from the Piscataquis River into the hydroelectric plant of Brown's Mill. He heard a strangely squishy, popping sound. "It was sort of like a baseball bat hitting a rotten stump," he recalls. The bulkhead below the 600-kw generator bulged from hydrostatic pressure and quietly let go. MacArthur (who owns the mill) turned, horrified, to see 100 tons of concrete, studded with steel reinforcing rods, tossed lightly into the springtime air as thousands...
...airing "patently offensive" language, even if that language would be protected in another medium as less than "legally" obscene. The "uniquely pervasive presence" of broadcasting justifies such regulation, said Stevens, who tried to narrow the ruling to the facts of the case-an explicit comedy routine that could be heard by a child in the afternoon over New York's radio station WBAI-FM. Angrily dissenting, Brennan said that Stevens' rationale "could justify" banning Chaucer from the radio, as well as portions of the Watergate tapes and the Bible...
...warm, but his eyes and manner were tense and alert. He has been going through a trying period during which he has been increasingly criticized as a leader who changes directions under fire, a man who allows too many policy voices and too many different signals to be heard. His laissez-faire style has left people uncertain about where the President stands. Lately he has been moving toward a more combative attitude...
Most Americans have never heard the free sounds of progressive jazz. The reason is simple: major record companies tend to produce old reliables and lucrative fusion music; they are unwilling to promote the experimental edge. A few of the best progressive practitioners, among them Jarrett and Trumpeter Don Cherry, 41, record in Europe. One of the few outfits supporting this hard-to-absorb music is New York's nonprofit New Music Distribution Service. Says Drummer Beaver Harris, one of the artists who uses the service: "What the major record companies produce isn't always what's happening...