Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have found attentive ears willing to listen to our truth," remarked a Zapatista commander, before he and his colleagues returned to their mountain redoubts to seek ratification of the agreement from their followers. "This stage of dialogue has ended, and it is on a good path." Government peace commissioner Manuel Camacho Solis was equally enthusiastic: "Every time there was a rebellion, it always ended in a huge massacre of Indians. Here it is ending in dialogue." He insisted that there were "no winners or losers" at the bargaining table, but it is difficult not to see the Zapatistas as triumphant...
Quoting Camille Paglia may be appropriate in such a discourse as his; however, his choice of quotes--"Puhleez!"--is dubious. Rather then telling these students to "shut up," perhaps Mr. Lat should first listen to what they are saying...
Andrew: I'm really glad Steve hare is calling our bluff, because I want a journalist to get on our case and encourage us to think. And we just have these snide answers. We all listen to whatever we can get our hands on that interests us. I guess everyone who's listening to music has a collection of interests they're pursuing, ideas that they look for, different bands that might be attacking these ideas in different ways... and we all have totally different ideas of what bands are doing creative things...
Frazzled first-years, don't bother with the book. Don't listen to the house tours. FM's handy guide to the houses will tell you all you need to know--not that it matters, you'll get randomized anyway. (And remember, housing forms are due on Monday...
...realized that they're in a difficult position, that they have to balance the interests to many different groups, but I wish they would listen to the students more," Tom says. "it always feels like we're coming to them and asking for things. I wish that they would take the lead in these issues of minority faculty hiring and ethnic studies...