Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustration, an uneasiness. It's a war with no end AP in sight. It's a racial and urban problem with no end in sight. It's a fiscal problem with no end in sight. Maybe if we all get out of here, go home and listen to the people for a while, we'll come back with new hope and new ideas and new enthusiasm. But maybe we'll come back more discouraged than ever...
...repressiveness, too many American middle-class parents careen downward from the joys of birth to the final whimper, "What did we do wrong?" The hard answer is that failed parents tend to be failed people who use children for their own emotional hang-ups. They never stop, look or listen to the kids; they never grasp that parenthood is a full-time job, perhaps the most important job in a chronically changing America. They never see the challenge: teaching a child integrity-the self-respect that makes for strong, kind men and women who can cope with life...
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...Harvard overseer) are beginning to express their dissatisfaction with the administration's policies. "Dissent from Mrs. Bunting's activities is very widespread," the trustee remarked. The administration's positions on both the housing controversy and the Dow demonstration have illuminated the basic problem. The administration does not want to listen to students, and, as a result, it seems to be deliberately misrepresenting student opinion to alumnae, trustees, and Council members, by giving them what they define as responsible student opinion...
...crowd roars as Barbra, its Barbra, comes on the outdoor stage. She, in a flowing pink gown, is but a twinkling spot in the distance. Around her, her lovers, who listen together to her voice. "There couldn't be 135,000 people," says Commissioner Heckscher, "They'd all have to be embracing. But then a lot of them...