Word: heed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shan't reveal how it's done. Suffice it to say that we are the victim of an ingenious, even brilliant, stunt. But we are so concerned over the prestigiation and sleight-of-body that we can give no heed to the play. We have become watchers at a mere carnival side-show. The audience's natural reaction to all this is recounted at great and amusing length in Walter Kerr's review for the New York Times. As Keats did not quite say, "Was it aversion, or a waking Dream?" At any rate, as he did say, "Fled...
There is also the question of how much power the Federation will have to represent before the University will heed its demands. This is not a problem of numbers so much as it is a problem of militancy. With the organization in its present loose form, the University may not be required to take its requests seriously. If the administration chose to politely ignore the Federation, the leadership would have to confront the tough question: what do we have to do to make them listen...
...Year of the Goat* amid an international flurry of peace talk, neither noise nor nostrums seemed to have much effect on the true devils of the South: the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies. During the four-day Tet truce, the Reds who were not fighting doubtless paid heed to the Liberation radio's directions about how to celebrate the festival: "Organize collective entertainment-including bayoneting the effigies of Americans, Thieu and Ky." But despite their own announcement of a seven-day truce (the U.S. and South Viet Nam agreed to only four days), a lot kept right...
...cafe, dressed as a bit of a dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...
...thing is embarrassing," Fort Worth's top police announced a new policy: lie-detector tests for any suspect who requests one. Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr suggested that the same policy may be advisable throughout the state. Amid all the good intentions, though, no one paid much heed to the hazards, notably the possibility of testing error and the fact that from now on, police may well assume the guilt of suspects who refuse the tests...