Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They're much simpler, you know, and they say a lot more than the Beatles with their highly contrived messages. Its just like Dylan, he can say in a few words what it would take Janis Ian a whole song to get at. I've only recently begun to listen to Dylan's songs closely and they're very literate. Like Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. its comic and intelligent. very good as literature." All this delivered in the soft slurring curiously exciting working-class London accent...
...unavoidably fuzzy because so much depends on the severity of the child's original handicap and on subjective judgment of what constitutes marked improvement. Bettelheim estimates the adjustment rate at 40% in the exceptionally severe psychosis known as infantile autism, a disorder whose victims refuse to recognize, listen, or in most cases even speak to the world around them. He puts the rate at 80% for other patients. Some psychiatrists think Bettelheim's figures may be optimistic, but concede that his results are vastly better than those achieved in most mental institutions...
...Wagner, could change this. His productions introduced heavy hints of Freudian psychology, but the lovers' bond remained shrouded in symbolism. It all seemed to bear out Wagner's advice to Nietzsche that to get the most out of the opera, he should take off his glasses and listen to the orchestra...
...translate them all into books. So he plans to publish a hot medium of his own - a newsletter called McLuhan's Dewline. Says the Canadian scholar-turned-guru: "It's going to be a distant-early-warning system to give advance notice to anyone who'll listen." Planned articles: "Love Thy Label as Thyself," "The End of the Muddle Class," and "The Executive as a Dropout." Should some disciples worry that McLuhan might label himself an ordinary editor, he plans to mix his printed material with occasional recordings called, punnily enough, "plattertudes...
...listen to the blues, to the blues and what they're sayin...