Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always amazed by the extracurricular life at Harvard. While by day students attend lectures and sections and listen to learn about life, by night the College transforms and students actually experience life. Students wonder why an energetic social life is absent; it's because all that energy has somehow been funneled into extracurricular activities: plays, magazines, newspapers, orchestras and more. And while some may decry this experience and the funneling of student energy into extracurricular life, this is really one of the most important parts of Harvard life...
...extracurriculars. There we can influence policy, change structure, and do what we want. Of course, such student maneuvering brings about bad as well as good effects because students are bound to make mistakes. But we need extracurriculars for our lives to give us a place where we can listen and act and see results...
Ranting in front of the stony stare of John Harvard is not the best way to bring about change. Though we need as diverse a faculty as possible, this protest hardly brought us any closer to that goal. Shouting never makes people listen. While confrontation makes for good print, it does not have as much impact as a well-reasoned statement that persuades rather than deafens. Such an important issue as faculty diversity should not be championed by such empty shouting...
...Listen, Jeffrey," I said, "I really don't see anything wrong with Gingrich paying that fine out of campaign funds. In fact, I intend to write a column to that effect...
Someone might take a tape, though. To listen is not to read (especially if the book is abridged), but it's close enough for many. Audiobooks, long tainted by their association with motivational infomercial gurus, got a sorely needed cultural seal of approval when Hillary Clinton received a Grammy Award for her spoken version of her book, It Takes a Village. The market for audiobooks is booming. That may be, in part, because they are compact and convenient and offer pseudo intimacy with sages and celebrities. The forthcoming John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will...