Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps more important for all of us to open our mail (when it arrived), talk on the phone, listen to the radio and know that we were thoroughly loved and supported by our families, friends and fellow country people back at home...
...possible death of a culture, as fragile as the ozone layer, the culture of Dostoyevsky and Pasternak? Damn the totalitarian empire, but will this be the end of the only country in the world where millions of people recite poetry by heart, like a prayer, where they listen to poetry readings in stadiums, where a book of verse can still sell 250,000 copies...
Gilligan's message to college-aged women is to "listen" for the voices of the girls within them and make an effort to "change the existing order" which may have repressed that voice...
Some observers credit rap music for the renewed interest in the spoken word. "Ears are being tuned up to listen to words again," says Manhattan's Holman. Events like slams are aimed to appeal to a generation accustomed to the frenetic action of MTV. Contestants at Chicago's Green Mill are encouraged to perform their poems to live music, creating a new blend of poetry and song that has been nicknamed -- what else -- pong. In New York City the deejay at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe plays James Brown records and other dance music during breaks between slam competition rounds...
...White House last week dispatched Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Niles to Ukraine to talk about nuclear weapons; Secretary of State James Baker will follow next week. But Niles was instructed only to listen and not to broach any new American ideas. Congress voted just before Thanksgiving to put up $400 million to help the U.S.S.R. and its republics dismantle nuclear weapons, but the Administration has yet to plan how it will disburse that drop in the bucket...