Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading "the world at last out of the valley of turmoil. . . We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another," he said, "until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways?to the voices of quiet anguish, the voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices and the anxious voices and the voices that have despaired of being heard...
...Congress and almost everywhere we don't feel free to be wholly human." In his view, a duologue is little more than a monologue mounted before a glazed and exquisitely indifferent audience, as in the classroom: "First the professor talks and the students don't listen; then the students talk or write and the professor doesn't listen or read...
...delicate. John Entwhistle plays the bass. Entwhistle is a very placid performer. He stands in one place on stage and just plays. But the patterns of backup he provides are not predictable. So often in rock the various instruments come to follow patterns which are predictable after you listen to a lot of music. But the Who's music can't be followed so easily. They have taken the forms of rock and played it onto a new level. They are unique. Roger Daltrey sings and plays French horn occasionally. Nicky Hopkins plays piano, as sort of a guest performer...
...Faculty also refused to adopt Dean Ford's motion, affirming for the time being, existing attendance rules. Meetings probably will not be thrown open immediately to the public, but it now seems likely that student observors will soon be allowed to listen to crucial Faculty debates. Yesterday's hour-and-a-half discussion suggests that many Faculty members are responding to a substantive issue raised by the Paine Hall demonstration and now being pressed by SFAC and are questioning the convention of closed meetings that has stood for years supported by little more than habit...
...replaces Alan S. Boyd at the Department of Transportation, the new Inner Belt will inevitably be built through a section of Cambridge where it is both unwelcome and harmful. It is still hard to say whether the proposed route should be changed, but Boyd was at least willing to listen to local complaints and suggestions. Nothing in Volpe's performance as governor or his what-makes-Sammy-run desire for ac-complishment suggests he will be as accommodating. "In his haste to get the job done," one high official in the DOT said of Volpe, "I'm afraid he might...