Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noise that is so uncomfortable to their elders? A Florida teenager explained: "The sounds embalm you. They numb you. You don't want to hear others talk. You don't want to talk. You don't know what to say to each other anyway." So why listen? And, eventually...
Unlike James Joyce, who refused to read Freud, or Dylan, who could not listen to Sgt. Pepper, novelist-essayist-poet and Joyce disciple Anthony Burgess has read everything. The prolific Englishman, author of thirteen books since 1949, has thrown it all into his latest tale of a lonely antihero dragging his dyspeptic way through the exoticisms of the Great Mundane. Burgess's greatest creation is Enderby, a wheezing, farting, belching bachelor poet who writes in the lavatory of his filthy flat. Enderby is a Mad Magazine version of Leopold Bloom; he sentimentally feeds gulls and innocently offends all the local...
...grossly exaggerated. While he was indeed called in on "a few critical matters," most notably Viet Nam and the Detroit riots, he said that his role was not to shape policy but to synthesize the arguments of others in clear legal style. "My function," he noted, "has been to listen to what is said . . . then to sum up the arguments on the one side, the considerations on the other...
Billionaire Howard Hughes and the American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. last week ended where they had started 15 suspenseful days before. Hughes still had the kitty of cash he was willing to spend to take over ABC, while ABC felt itself free again to listen to other suitors for merger...
Reddin's schemes for better commu nity relations have not worked miracles or turned Watts into a place where happy kiddies constantly listen to stories from avuncular cops. Nonetheless, police are relatively safe in Watts, something that cannot be said for all the nation's ghettos. Though most members of minorities like Reddin's ideas, many Negro militants still refuse to talk with the police. Some, like US (US is black people; whites would be THEM) Chief Ron Karenga, insist that Chief Parker's out-and-out hostility would be preferable to Reddin's firm amiability. The police, says Karenga...