Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispute; he will remain in charge of the area's eight schools until tensions have relaxed. Three principals named by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville local board were suspended from their jobs pending a court decision on the legality of their appointments. A three-man committee was designated to hear teachers' complaints. U.F.T. Leader Albert Shanker won reinstatement for 79 of his teachers who had been transferred out of the district or walked out of their jobs in sympathy; four nonunion teachers accused of hostility toward U.F.T. members were transferred out of the district. Administrator Rhody McCoy was suspended...
...audience trailed in to hear his Kirkland House speech, Goodwin sat calmly at a table in front, fingering a Mark Cross pencil and spinning a copy of John Brown's Body. He eyed the audience intently to find out just what kind of people he was addressing. Yet he spoke quietly, without the rhetorical crescendos expected from a writer of Inaugurals, and did not seem to revise his delivery according to its impact. His voice was so low-keyed that the people in back complained he was unexciting; those in front were far more moved. It is Goodwin's argument...
...torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions of life in an decipherable moment of ineffable unity. And so, rowing Endgame on top of Presidential Power, and ling the ineluctable pull of some Taoist-Maoist dooms against my Captain Shotover-Thomist faith, I ded for Sanders to hear the Stravinsky Mass, and oral works by Britten and Dello Joio in honor of the atron saint of music...
...never upset by the band's occasionally off-color antics. "There was a time when they apologized any time somebody said 'damn,' but they ignore me now. Half the things I don't understand, and a lot of the things that I do understand I just don't hear any more. Like the show at the Princeton game this year--I didn't understand that, and anybody who did had a dirty mind...
...Vanilla Variable: You learn to tumble and join an acrobatic road show which takes you to a small town in New Hampshire where you hear two girls speaking in Arabic. You either don't understand it and continue as usual, or do understand and talk to them. When you talk to them, a cop then asks you if you're a wise guy. You're either nice to him and then continue as usual, or you call him a wise cop and get into a flight that leaves you mostly blinded, you find that what should have been a determinant...