Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further difficulties arose when sponsors of the Fair tried to reserve the Common for yesterday only to hear from the Cambridge City Father's that the grounds had already been allocated to the Polish American Citizens who plan to re-erect a plaque displaced during construction of the underpass. Fortunately the potential conflict never materialized and a compromise was worked out: the peaceniks would disrupt the Shabbos and the Poles the Sabbath...
Side by Side. Visibly pleased by the acclamation, De Gaulle told the Rumanians just what they wanted to hear...
...limits of conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different stations. " Just by looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial stomach that would enable the people of underdeveloped lands to eat grass, and a hut-shrinking chemical "which...
...discover why lawyers are not used more frequently in underprivileged communities, came up with mostly ifs and buts. Another study of the power of word of mouth communication in consumer buying turned up some rather surprising results. There is definitely a relationship between the frequency with which you hear the name of a product, and your instinct to buy it. But it makes no difference whether what you hear about the product is positive or negative--you might be told that soap X ruins your skin, but the next time you shop for soap all you remember is the name...
...album, is doing something that's similar to his early folk style, but he's not going back to anything. The message of these songs is so amazing, put across so convincingly that a friend told me, "Wow, think of all the people who are going to hear this and then turn around and look over their shoulder and wonder where they've been going...