Word: listeners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to listen to presidential candidates to realize that the American family is the national religion. It is a religion based on a noble fantasy: the dream of blood belonging. Some families stay together through love, or through propriety or inertia. All are bound by intimately shared joy and pain, by a need to keep the dream of personal immortality alive for just one more generation. Every parent must believe he will be born again in the new, improved image of his child...
...there needs to be more direct dialogue between administrators and students. Officials rarely met with the student groups issuing complaints last year; they simply responded in terse, written statements when student goups, such as the Minority Students Alliance, asked them to listen. This is no way to conduct relations and certainly no way to democratically accommodate and act on student concerns...
...have been his adviser," she told TIME last week. "In his first congressional campaign, I made all the decisions. He has always treated me as a coequal adviser to anyone he has ever had." Last week, when the Senator challenged recommendations in one prep session, Marilyn told him firmly, "Listen." Listen...
...ways in which love and death are often inevitably linked. She has always had an extraordinary gift for establishing intimate contact with patients, drawing strength from them even as she gives it. She talks lovingly, almost as a mother, of long-gone patients -- Mrs. G., Louie, Ted -- who would listen to her problems and anxieties...
...less Superdome than Superdrone. The cavernous arena seemed to swallow up the voices of the speakers. On opening night, crusty former Senator Barry Goldwater, seated in the VIP box, was cussing and complaining that no one could hear what was being said. Some delegates actually left the arena to listen to the convention on television. According to a New Orleans official, Ed McNeill, the National Education Association met in the Dome before the Republicans did and offered to split the cost of the sound system. But the Republicans said no. "They wanted their own system, so they reinvented the wheel...