Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only way we can get anybody to listen to us is to start a riot," said one Los Angeles Negro. "As long as we lie down we are going to get kicked." Said another resident of Watts, the Negro ghetto where the Los Angeles riot erupted: "Whitey will have to help us now." Last week Whitey was doing just that. In Washington, President Johnson dispatched to Los Angeles a "task force," headed by Deputy Attorney General Ramsey Clark, to inaugurate a crash program of federal help for the 45-sq.-mi., riot-torn area...
...other influences on Kazantzakis' thought pale before the figure of Alexis Zorba, and Kazantzakis' final judgment of life coincides with his: "Greetings, man, you little two-legged plucked cock! It's really true (don't listen to what others say): if you don't crow in the morning, the sun does not come...
...found there: the life of a successful middle-aged man who ponders the pleasures and problems of success and middle age. It is certainly too much to say that W. H. Auden, the enfant terrible of the '30s, has become the Edgar Guest of the '60s-but listen to this...
...Future in Boxing, by Sonny Listen...
...happily pay a top price of $20 per night. But even they still have to sit on the hard, wicker-backed chairs installed by Richard Wagner. Says Wieland: "Grandfather didn't intend his audience to have fun. The uncomfortable seats stimulate the audience to concentrate, listen and experience greatness...