Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like contrived "coolness." The lack of interest or elegance apparent in song after song of faded love and introspection reduces Bowie's renowned musical and lyrical ferocity to tired (and tiresome) whining. Every track has its moments, but such nuances in a banal batch of tunes only remind the listener of better Bowie. "If I'm Dreaming My Life" and "The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell" are engaging, but it's doubtful they'll be remembered as Bowie classics. Like its slick packaging, even the best of the album is still just surface. Nevertheless, listen to ...hours...
...carries over into other matters as well. The folks in the administration, they never listen to our side of things. We tell them the advising system is a joke, they ignore us. We tell them randomization has ruined all but the most contrived House spirit, they could care less. They want to make all the decisions for us. I don't understand it. They're not our parents...
...Perennially jealous of the college students he sees on the subway ("It must be grand to be a student with nothing to do but listen to professors, read in libraries, sit under campus trees and discuss what you're learning.") McCourt talks his way into New York University by giving an admissions officer a sampling of his reading list, heavy on Dostoyevsky and Melville, with a smattering of Tolstoy...
...told his proctor about the theft and then called Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and his debit card company. Trying to cancel his debit card, Stevens recalls, took forever. It was a Sunday, so banks were closed, and Stevens had to call an automated 1-800 number. "I would listen to all the menu choices, and none of them sounded like the right one, so I'd just pick one, and it would be wrong and I'd have to call again." Stevens ended up calling the company five times...
...speech, Stern described the class as an "encounter," with the goal of teaching students to "learn how to look and how to listen...