Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overlook perfectly well-documented adultery charges and grant the divorce for extreme cruelty so that alimony may be assigned to a woman who needs it. When the dirty linen starts to be aired, says Miami Judge Lawrence King, "I just click my mind off and don't even listen to their arguments." Agrees his local colleague, Judge Lee: "I try to make them understand that there is no reason to try to convince me of what an S.O.B. their mate is. How bad the man may have been has absolutely nothing to do with the money allocation...
...other hand, brute honesty is not particularly indicated; this is not an Ibsen's Wild Duck situation. You listen to something and you try to respond more or less the way you feel, within the bounds of judgment. You don't tell the patient, "We won't talk about that because I'm scared." What you might say is, "That's kind of a frightening idea." He may be frightened...
...Listen, Harvard, here you are, giving money to this war, giving brains to it, living on its fat, letting it ruin you and all you believe in. How can you let that happen? Perhaps there are no solutions to the money problems and to the problems of how to "take a stand," perhaps there are no solutions. Still, to admit the situation exists is a first step, and you won't even do that...
...convinced of the value in cooperating with labor. "Demonstrations, and working for McCarthy, are important, but they aren't enough. I'd like to see Young Dems work with unions and help them. Then when an issue like Vietnam comes up, you've got voters who will listen to you," he said...
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