Word: listeners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading character a Wall Street broker (pre Black Monday) instead of a writer. "Writers are not much affected by scandal," says the author, "but bond salesmen can be ruined." Moreover, the alteration meant that Wolfe had to study the breed in its habitat, to examine its plumage, to listen to the roar of "well-educated young white men baying for money." In short, New Journalism shares much with the traditional novel of manners and society. "Realism is a plateau from which literature cannot back down," says Wolfe, acknowledging his debt to Balzac, Thackeray, Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...
...that said, one may well wonder at the wisdom of programming concerts as one might "program" a recording. Brahms's late music is beautiful and profound, but it is also, from an audience's standpoint, exhausting to listen to in long stretches...
...Used to listen in the square...
...would have been reassuring only if he had intended it ironically, as he obviously had not. Some critics began speaking of the President in tones of contempt. Said a Wall Street money manager during the midst of the crash: "You sell and get what you can and never again listen to Ronald Reagan." M.I.T. Professor Robert Solow, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics last week, took the occasion to criticize Reagan's long, obstinate resistance to tax increases thought necessary by many to trim the budget deficit and thus restore confidence. The President, said Solow, "is holding...
...modern-day witches say that regardless of this, most people still see them as evil. Within the witch community, there is a great deal of apprehension about the image of modern-day witches. People have such strong preconceptions about what witches are that they rarely listen to the facts. People have thrown bricks through the windows of Arsenic and Old Lace because they thought it a hangout for Satan-worshippers, Floyd says...