Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antenna. Wallace had gone to New Hampshire to drum up publicity for his third-party presidential candidacy, which he hopes to advance in that state's Democratic primary next year. The unruly reception at Dartmouth, besides violating his right to be heard and that of others to listen, only played into his hands by gaining him far more attention than his stock speech could have attracted...
While few in the overflow audience of 1,400 seemed to be Wallace partisans, most wanted to give him a hearing out of curiosity, courtesy or both. To the cries of "Throw him out!" one student yelled back: "We listened to Stokely Carmichael, so why don't you listen to Wallace?" (When the Negro militant appeared at the school last fall, he was subjected to a few boos.) When Wallace did manage to be heard, it was to correct "misunderstandings" about his state, to deny being a racist, and to denounce Americans who aid the Viet Cong by donating...
Sitting ramrod-erect at his ornate Louis XV desk in Elysee Palace, President Charles de Gaulle reaches out occasionally to snap on a loudspeaker dubbed le perroquet (the parrot) that permits him to listen to debate in the National Assembly. Lately the parrot has gone wild with a cacophony of shouting, desktop banging and name-calling that led in one embarrassing instance to a sword duel between two incensed Deputies. The sounds from the box have made painfully clear to De Gaulle that the mere plurality that Gaullists drew in the March parliamentary elections has transformed the comfortably rubber-stamping...
...anything done-I'd be spending just about all my time with them." Barnard College Junior Jean McKenzie, who has taken some courses at nearby Columbia, argues that "in mixed classes you don't really get a mixed point of view; the men talk, and the women listen...
...takes. We are human beings with all the frailties and weaknesses of such, working with other human beings with the same qualities. But what we exchange on a personal level with each other as people is what makes this job worthwhile. We have got to be able to listen as well as speak. I don't think Sigal did much listening. JOHN D. CARROLL