Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smarter ones of us have listened to you briefly and walked away, Mr. Collins. Your laughable epiphanies of nudity, your pathetic revelations of freedom are cant. We know we are alive and don't need to discuss it. Your need is your own. But others of us have tried to argue methods, and existences, somehow too naive to believe that you won't listen and understand. It is our way, to talk things out and to believe that others would do the same if they would only understand...
...draft, his boundless energy comes through. Gruening first denounced the war on the Senate floor in April, 1964, and has been attacking in tirelessly ever since. In all his conversation, he constantly comes back to the war, explaining his ideas over and over again to anyone who will listen. The words flow out easily, in an even, forceful voice. A disaster, he says continually. The worst disaster in the country's history. We are the aggressors in Vietnam, he says. The spectre of the draft, forcing young men to choose between Vietnam and prison, seems to haunt him as intensely...
...them, he was assured and well-informed, displaying modesty and a hard intelligence, common sense and a very uncommon determination. There were no grand new visions or invocations of ancient splendor. Nixon's was an understated performance, and it was successful exactly for that reason. He went to listen to Europe's leaders, and there is no more popular conversationalist than a good listener...
Restating the aims of his trip, Nixon declared: "I have come for work, not for ceremony; to inquire, not to insist; to consult, not to convince; to listen and learn, and to begin what I hope will be a continuing interchange of ideas and insights." He was warmly received, notably when he admitted: "I know there have been rumblings of discontent in Europe-a feeling that too often the United States talked at its partners instead of with them, or merely informed them of decisions after they were made, instead of consulting with them before deciding." Nixon bent over backward...
...fact Social Realism is the aesthetic implication of a particular ideology, and its representation of events is objective insofar as you share in the ideology. One need only listen to a member of Progressive Labor--the sponsors of this showing of Potemkin--tell you what "objectively" happened at an event, as opposed say to what you thought you were experiencing, to know just how useless the word "objective" has become...