Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next time you are at a Harvard women's soccer game watching the Crimson beat up on some inferior opponent, take a look and a listen toward the Harvard bench. There you will see Wheaton, Bagley and crew doing their part to spur the Crimson to victory...
...have quickly learned to recognize how uncomfortable some of my white friends get at the mention of a BSA event or lecture. I could either ignore their anxieties as a form of racism and choose to identify myself even more strongly with the black community. Or I could listen to their concerns and attempt to explain BSA activities as well as how I perceive the BSA should interact with the larger Harvard community. At that point I would try to harass them to attend a BSA sponsored discussion...
...legacy has America given the world than the songs of Gershwin, Cole Porter and the rest of the gang? What body of our music has been more widely played, admired and memorized around the world than the jazz-flavored songs known as standards? And where did they come from? Listen...
...they are right not to care. In our democracy, politicians are not supposed to listen to polls. But they are not supposed to rely solely on personal conscience either. The people should guide politicians' actions, and the framers of the Constitution established a mechanism for them to do so: voting. There is an election in six weeks. And the sliver of people who will actually vote in it are quite disposed to move toward impeachment. These are the people to whom the Republicans are rightly listening...
...number. Now phone company Ameritech in Chicago has a service called Privacy Manager that intercepts unidentifiable calls before the phone rings and prompts the caller to identify himself. If the caller refuses (as telemarketers are likely to do), the call disconnects. Otherwise, when it rings through, subscribers can listen to the recorded name and decide whether to take the call. Cost: $4 a month plus caller-ID fees...