Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march on poverty. Let us march on ballot boxes, march on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena, until the Wallaces of our nation trem ble away in silence. My people, my people, listen! The battle is in our hands...
...biggest problem, she says, is teaching Americans to create a cool place for plants in their "frightfully overheated houses." Yet, she adds, "if your green things are thriving, don't listen to me. There is no right way to do anything...
...complaints that he is lazy, he points out that he has written four books since 1960 and averaged 125 major speeches a year outside the Senate. "Did they expect me to go to the Senate and do hand springs?" he asks. "To fulminate like Wayne Morse? Or to listen to the same speeches on the same issues?" He refuses to worry about roll-call votes "just to get on the record." And though he scorns fence-mending chores that can devour a Senator's time, Minnesotans don't seem to mind; they seek out Senator Walter Mondale...
...Scourby quality, says Warren, is "warmth and appeal." His voice is at once "distinguished, melodic, mellifluous, the kind that makes people stop and listen." It does so in a soft, unobtrusive, untheatrical way. It bespeaks intelligence and money-old money. His agent, Fifi Oscard, calls it "upscale," an ad-game adjective that evokes the top social and economic strata...
...Ergo is not much of a pleasure to listen to, the staging makes it a delight to watch. The actors move swiftly and smoothly on, off, up, down and around the ingenious three-story set of Designer Ming Cho Lee. Their steps, gestures and facial miming are deftly coordinated with a mind-blowing razzle-dazzle of sound effects. Among the players, Jack Hollander is ebulliently disreputable as Wacholder, while Tom Aldredge makes an antiseptically uptight Wurz. The charmer of the production is Wurz's dimpled dumpling of a wife, played by Maxine Greene, 23, making her Manhattan debut...