Search Details

Word: hearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...disturbed by some SWAT members' behavior Saturday. The snide remark of my fashionable apathy strikes me as akin to the arrogance, condescension, and elitism that SWATters purport to protest. I hope this doesn't characterize all members of SWAT. I thank the woman who insulted me for hearing and acknowledging my complaint. I was surprised SWATters chanted while I explained myself--a group that expects others to hear their argument will not hear another. I was even more suprised that a group advocating civil rights tried to limit my freedom of speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWAT Rally | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...parrots who chatter the beautiful poetry of Princess Ateh, for example, continue to resurface centuries after the meaning of the Khazar language has been forgotten. Nonetheless, those who hear the parrots claim that the poetry has moved them. This might be a symbol of language communicating despite enormous gaps, or it might be a symbol of language only seeming to communicate, a delusion that the gaps belie...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

About 75 people crammed into the fiction area of the Harvard Book Store last night to hear Alexander Cockburn, a radical columnist and author of "Corruptions of Empire," assail the American media...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

Flutie barks out an audible on first down from the Dolphins 12 early in the second half (yes, I can hear him all the way in Section 325, Row 25). The Pats are poised to score again, but the only rumble in the stands is something about the Bruins...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Shhhhhh... | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

...sight of Cohen puffing away on his ever present cigar and asked sarcastically if RJR, which sells some 290 billion cigarettes a year, also made cigars. Roberts, who moved to a seat across the room, seriously misjudged his audience. The last thing the embattled RJR team wanted to hear at that hour was another antismoking crack, especially from a would-be ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Big-Time Buyouts | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Previous | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | Next