Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear his friends tell it, Lyndon Johnson has turned into just another hill-country rancher. He helps lay irrigation pipe, frets about his cattle and the weather, works on his memoirs and papers, entertains a few close friends, watches an occasional movie in a converted hangar at the ranch (he invariably falls asleep). Sundays, he usually goes to one of the churches around Johnson City-Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran, it hardly seems to matter, as though he were facing God as an equal and the intermediaries were supernumerary. He is fit and tanned, relaxed and happy...
...hear Everett Dirksen tell it, Vice President Agnew was going broke just keeping his wife in party dresses. Mrs. Agnew, the lugubrious Dirksen fretted, "can wear a fancy dress about three times and then he [Agnew] has got to whip down there and have another made. That's $700 or $800." There was quite a bit of Dirksen hyperbole in that, and Judy Agnew was quick to set the record straight. "The most expensive gown I own is my inaugural ball gown," the Second Lady protested. "That cost under $500, and I don't expect to pay that...
...agree unanimously that the defendants are guilty," says Mosley. But if the defense gets one man who refuses to cast a guilty vote, "it's a hung jury and they're the winners." Then the judge's charge to the jury. "You'll hear all the conditions that have to be met before the jury can return a guilty verdict," said Mosley. "You'll wonder how anyone is ever found guilty...
What pleases all composers is the way the LP has broadened the taste and intelligence of the listener. "Once only kings made love to music," says Berio. "Now everybody does." Adds Germany's Hans Werner Henze: "Audiences have learned to hear pieces of music more than once and thus have acquired a training in hearing musical structures." That kind of knowing audience has made possible a new mode of composition in which snippets from, say, the Baroque, French Impressionism and Viennese post-Romanticism are pasted into surrealistic aural collages that would lose much of their point for anyone...
Weary of political pragmatism, Lowi prescribes a return to idealism. That idealism is at times Procrustean and not easy to put into practice, but all of it is refreshing to hear. His program calls not for less central government but for more -and this time with teeth. He would establish a senior civil service group, for example, composed of generalists with ties to no single agency, who would be responsible for providing a "proper centralization of a democratic administrative process." Sloppily written laws, he feels, have been much to blame for the failure of government. Accordingly, he would strengthen congressional...