Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the goal, no Crimson player said a word. All they did was listen. To the gleeful shouts of the Big Green and and to that sickly sound no team ever wants to hear--the sound of defeat...
...Arthur Friedheim and six others. Even allowing for poor recording quality and the advanced age of some of the performers, what is remarkable is how ordinary most of the playing is. Only the dazzling if sometimes clumsy Rosenthal and the elegant Jose Vianna da Motta would get a second listen today. Friedheim, in particular, is appalling in selections by his mentor and Chopin. Memory does play tricks...
...offstage -- Hillary Clinton's role as something close to a co-campaign manager for her husband. While she is not in charge of anything specific, she gets in on many decisions, frequently helping to cut through confusion and bring rambling discussions to a focus. Clinton has a tendency to listen to everyone interminably and let discussions drag. Hillary, says one of her advisers, is frequently the one to say, "O.K., we've had enough discussion, let's get this resolved." Betsey Wright, long Clinton's chief of staff and now a sort of "secretary of defense" for the campaign, formulating...
...task of arguing for or against one particular choice. The aide in question, who had for a time been watching Tsongas on the campaign trail, began getting late-night calls from Clinton, who would ask, "O.K., why should Paul Tsongas not be my running mate?" Clinton would then merely listen, without comment, while the aide made his argument...
...inches of progress," Jaeger said. "We do think the University's negotiators are doing a poor job of trying to listen and respect the ideas that we put forward...