Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarks that prompted one Harvard Law School professor to publicly call the Provost "wrong" and suggest he was speaking "the language of menace," Green suggested that free speech has its limits. "I can't tell you that if things got really out of hand, I wouldn't say, listen, what you're saying is really disruptive and I'd like you to stop," Green said at the time. "If the Ku Klux Klan were marching through Harvard Yard, I wouldn't sit idly...
...Siberian factory director, his thick fingers playing with the end of his tie, eyed his two foreign visitors carefully and then leaned back in his chair to listen to the international businessman. An outsize copper relief of Lenin hanging on the wall behind him provided the only splash of color in an office that probably saw its best days about the time Sputnik was launched...
...listen to the students," Davissaid to the board, "but you pick and choose whatyou listen...
Furthermore, as if the action wasn't boring enough, a prospective golf fan is forced to listen to annoying, whispering announcers. Isn't the point of commenting on an event to actually offer insights and thoughts on the competition? It's kind of hard when no one can hear...
Anyone doubting that need only listen to her latest CD Blue Light 'Til Dawn, an enchanting and diverse collection that includes jazz renditions of songs by folk rocker Joni Mitchell and bluesman Robert Johnson. The first track, You Don't Know What Love Is, is slow and spare and recalls Billie Holiday without imitating her. "You don't know how hearts burn/ For love that cannot live yet never dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album...