Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listen to young Jabar and Hussein, privates in the Iraqi army, was to know the story of their country last week. A bag of spoiled dates -- "food for cattle," Hussein called it -- was their only sustenance as they plodded down a rain-sodden highway littered with ravaged tanks in southern Iraq. They had come from Basra, where a popular uprising against Saddam Hussein's government was under way. At one point in the fighting, Jabar and Hussein shed their uniforms and joined the revolt, but they grew fainthearted when loyalist troops began shelling rebel positions. "We are for the people...
...didn't hit me until I realized that [Rensselaer] would be my last chance to play at Bright Center," Weisbrod said. "So I called [Assistant Coach] Lane [MacDonald] and said that I didn't want to listen to the game on the radio. I lay on the floor and watched the game from the feed they run to tape the game. In the last five minutes, I stood on the penalty bench and watched. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss skating at Bright again, because of all of the memories...
...parades in Munich: triumphal processions of kitsch, with huge papier-mache Greek heads borne by people dressed as Rhine Maidens and warriors of the Teutoburg Forest. There are screenings of films whose display is still illegal in Germany, such as Hitlerjunge Quex, 1933, and Jud Suss, 1940. One can listen to a duet from Act I of Lohengrin, conducted by the young Nazi virtuoso Herbert von Karajan, or to SS marches...
...OBVIOUS PLACE to turn is to Literature and Arts B. There are no drawbacks whatsoever to this Concentration! You are expected to do nothing but look at beautiful pictures and listen to beautiful music. Lots of the books you buy are in color and look good on coffee tables. You will learn to bat around words like "plasticity," "chiaroscuro" and "tonality" without knowing precisely what they mean...
Before we embark upon Bush's plan for a new world order, we should listen to Kennan...