Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Councillor Maher repeatedly asked the witnesses if they planned to "join the Hanoi line by demonstrating to shut down the Pentagon on October 21." After laughter drowned one such question, Maher requested the spectators to "be so courteous as to listen, even if they won't support our country...
...Listen to the Body. As practiced at Esalen (named after an extinct Indian tribe), sensitivity training draws upon elements of the inner-directed meditation of Eastern religions and the interaction emphasis of Gestalt psychology. On the theory that modern urban man smothers his feelings under layers of intellectual abstractions and thus loses his sense of wholeness, Esalen President Michael Murphy, 37, a Stanford psychology graduate, also accents emotional release and an awareness of the body. "We have to learn to listen to our bodies if we are ever to enrich and expand our life of feeling," he says...
Many of the surveillance devices are in extremely wide use. Businesses spy on assembly-line workers and executives alike. Colleges listen in on dormitory rooms. Blackmail-minded brothel owners look in on their customers. Police hunt homosexuals with ceiling cameras installed in men's rest rooms. Cops also bug hoods, while hoods bug cops. Some towns have experimented with closed-circuit TV cameras on the streets; using street lights, police can watch at night for crimes. District attorneys have been known to record lawyer-defendant conferences, and everyone believes that everyone's wiretapping everyone else in Washington...
...sway a presidential election if they wanted to." If that is farfetched, the fact remains that when the Beatles talk-about drugs, the war in Viet Nam, religion-millions listen, and this is a new situation in the pop music world...
...album called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a photomontage of a crowd gathered round a grave. And a curious crowd it is: Marilyn Monroe is there, so are Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia, Mae West, Sonny Listen, and eight Beatles...