Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many as 24 students, each with a piano, can be taught at the same time by a single teacher. All the students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when the teacher happens to switch him on to offer individual ad vice. If the instructor wants to give the class practice in playing the same piece together...
...machinations of Apollo." Face it, baby: Apollo is dead. Nobody prays in the Theater of Dionysius today. And whatever the 20th century gods do, they don't machinate. Sophocles' play, though, lives on. Ever wonder why? Chris was trying to tell you, but you didn't listen...
...many challenges facing America today, none seem more critical than solving the crisis that faces our cities and urban areas." The letters are mailed to voters who have given the candidate a tape-recorded three-minute piece of their mind at one of Nixon's 700 "listening posts." Aides listen to each tape, so far have heard more than 40 miles of gripes and queries...
Avatar, a hippie-oriented newspaper based on a belief in Mel Lyman and in astrology, was founded in June 1967. "We were appealing to the people who could listen at the time," Liz said, 'the drug people. Now we appeal to everybody; businessmen, church people...
Many presidents have issued clear warnings. Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr, said that the university will listen to "anyone who is himself willing to listen," but that "coercion must be rejected as a substitute for persuasion." A student's views on campus matters, he said, "should be primarily motivated by what is best for Yale, not what will help him attain some other personal, political or ideological objective." At his installation as the new president of Brandeis, Morris Abram declared that "the right of students, faculty or anyone else to disrupt the learning process is no right...