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...this reign of consumerist psycho-terror cannot last forever. Hearken closely, Mother Harvard: Rebecca's blue corn tortillas alone will not sate...

Author: By Christopher Capozzola, | Title: Down with The Shops: A Manifesto | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

...leads inward. That's the Call's unswerving direction. After a single play of their new album Let the Day Begin, you understand immediately and intimately why Peter Gabriel called them "the future of American music." The Call's music is not retrograde or nostalgic, but it does hearken heavily to the indwelling mysteries that Dylan and the Band and Van Morrison also heard. "The Call is a band for people who feel things extremely," says Michael Been, the group's songwriter. "We're not for people who are extremely cool, for whom cool is the ultimate expression." From available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Directions for The Next Decade | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...guessing and the gossip chiefly hearken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Lines on a Laureate-to-Be | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

There is a traditional prescription for its recapture, which consists in swinging the club to a waltz tune.... So away I went to a secret valley, a very muddy one in the season of rain, where no human eye could see my contortion nor human ear hearken to my carolings, and 'Gad, there I was,' as Jos Sedley once observed, 'singing away like--a robin...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Grand Writer a', Nane Better | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Agnew complained further that the Washington Post Co.'s outlets are "all grinding out the same editorial line," and "hearken to the same master." There, the Vice President had a point. Mrs. Graham is not inclined to install top editors who stray too far from her own liberal views. It was perhaps unfortunate for her that when Newsweek's Lester Bernstein commented on Agnew's speech over CBS radio in New York, he chose precisely the same words used by Mrs. Graham. But a partial contradiction of Agnew's charge of monolithism was produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Weekly Agnew Special | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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