Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their way West. "All my life is here," he said, "the homeland?I listen only to its sadness, I write only about...
Further evidence came to light last week from Prague sources to indicate that Brezhnev had been the real heavy during the Moscow meetings. He would listen only to President Ludvik Svoboda, a hero of the Czechoslovak brigade that fought against the Nazis. Impatiently and arrogantly, he cut off the others in midsentence. Moreover, claimed the sources, as soon as word reached Moscow that President Johnson had left Washington's crisis atmosphere for his Texas ranch, Brezhnev and the other Russians felt assured that there would be no U.S. move to counter their invasion. Accordingly, they hardened their attitude toward...
...reasons for the improvement in Britain's balance of trade is the invasion of British business by U.S. businessmen. Few Britons would agree with that statement. But one who does-and is preaching it to anyone who will listen-is Joe Hyman, whose Viyella International Ltd. has grown into one of Britain's largest textile groups and most active exporters...
...Listen, what all's happent? said the clerk...
...rebellion for its own sake, about the pleasure we supposedly derive from the very act of disruption. But if that is all you see, then you have a problem of perception. Such blind condemnation can only confirm the already prevalent suspicion that somehow you can't or won't listen to what we have been trying to say--that, come what may, you won't be stirred from your business-asusual complacency. If our generation in general, and the movement in particular, have to be described in a word or two, I would call them not a nihilistic generation...