Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School Forum crowd of more than 1200 jammed Sanders to hear him speak on Transcendental Meditation. Among these was a small band of the Guru's disciples, including Mia Farrow, who sat on the stage meditating. Another 1000 listened in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Vietnamese audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately his aides never told him that the printed words for the phrase have to be pronounced quite precisely to convey the message. And every time Mac would wave his arms and give his little greeting, the audience would always hear something quite different: "the duck wants to lie down." The Viets would always howl at this time and Mac thought he had really scored. Maybe his French will get him by at the World Bank conferences...
...night there are 80 or 90 rounds-of 'H & I' (harassment and interdiction) artillery fired into a free strike zone outside of town. Our house is between the artillery mounting on a hill three miles from here and the free strike zones. It's not at all uncommon to hear shells whizzing high over the neighborhood. But if it weren't for the sake of a newsletter, I'd be completely oblivious to the noise (as, indeed, is everyone). H & I is fired mostly for psychological purposes. Free strike zones are areas the army is allowed to pummel...
...from the New Left conference in Chicago in a decidedly illiberal frame of mind after being denounced by Black Power advocates. " 'I'm sick of being called a genocidal maniac!' young Sidney shouted. 'Sh-sh,' cautioned his mother. 'The liberals next door may hear you, and then we won't get invited to any more cocktail parties.' 'I'm sick of living in this liberal ghetto,' young Sidney said. 'Why don't we move out of here into a nice reactionary neighborhood where people can hate other...
Shooting Star. "Go to the young conductors who are not making it," Mehta says, "and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities. But to make your way in a conducting career, you not only have to have opportunities; you have to make them a success." Mehta began pushing and making successes-while still a student. After the Hungarian revolution in 1956, he organized a student orchestra in seven days...