Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was skull cracking in The Netherlands. As 2,000 Communists gathered in Amsterdam to listen quietly to their leaders, thousands of students battled the police in the heart of the city and tried to plant Red and Viet Cong flags on the National Monument, which commemorates the Resistance of World War II. A police inspector, trapped by young toughs, was burned on the face with cigarette butts. In London, militant workers used May Day to protest the government's plan to outlaw wildcat strikes. Close to 100,000 workers stayed home, and the docks of London, Hull...
...person is desperate, something is wrong around him," says Dr. Frank S. Pittman III, director of psychiatric services at Grady Hospital. "The person says 'I am in an impossible situation' and 'I need help' in several ways-by saying it when no one is really listening, by attempting suicide, by beating up someone or by going to the hospital. They know something is wrong. And it is an enormous relief when we agree that something is wrong and when we listen...
...Hall says: "How often has a polite black schoolchild cast his eyes downward as a sign of respect, and failed to meet a teacher's eye when questioned? How many teachers have thought students were 'tuned out' because they gave no visible sign they were listening? How many have said, in angry tones, 'Johnny! When I talk, you listen! Is that clear?' What is the child to do? Sometimes blacks feel they are supposed to do something, but just what isn't clear-shuffle their feet, perhaps. Sometimes blacks find that if you move...
...Dreams, whose mouth gave a "continual impression of flux, of intense life, of passionate vitality-balanced only partially by the sad luxury of her eyes." Even more, she seems to be playing some endless version of Gatsby's Daisy, whose voice had "a singing compulsion, a whispered 'Listen,' a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour...
...voice is soft--there's no southern drawl, but there is a hint of Virginia that makes Styron easy to listen to: "Had I had any basic intellectual respects for what was in that book, I would have been seized by agues and palsies and taken a three or four-year trip to Europe...