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...conversation, are you racing to say the next thing, or really listening, processing, and contemplating what someone else says? Research conducted on listening shows that a majority of the time subjects engage in what is called competitive listening??focusing on their own thoughts rather than the words of the person talking. Obviously, being a good listener doesn’t mean stifling your own thoughts entirely, but it does mean giving the people you are listening to the cognitive room for their ideas...
...Emmett (the teaching associate Elle meets in her law class) is sweet but lacks Luke Wilson’s bookish sex appeal. Ken Land as Professor Callahan, on the other hand, is the epitome of that ruggedly handsome older professor and possesses an old-school “easy listening?? voice, especially in “Blood in the Water,” a call to Harvard Law School students to roll up their sleeves and realize “you’re nothing until the thrill of the kill becomes your only...
...After the panel, Vogel said he was pleased with the discussion. “These are a bunch of bright students who aren’t professionally trained but who are offering a true student perspective. Maybe their views—the views of both the students speaking and listening??are naïve, but this type of discussion helps give students a general understanding and makes them realize that they should go home and study up on the events.” Katherine M. Lovett ’07 said she was excited to attend the forum...
...program is inspired by the New York Times series, “Listening to CDs With,” a feature that interviews prominent jazz artists and asks them to comment on what they listen for in recordings of both new and old jazz.For the Harvard “Listening?? event, Byron says he will bring music he wrote for a documentary film about “Strange Fruit,” a song depicting the horrors of a lynching, made famous by Billie Holiday. He also plans to bring gospel music and an assortment of DVD?...
...Light With a Sharpened Edge,” are those that place in the foreground the lyrics that build this theme of transient life. On the other hand, when lead singer Bert McCracken belts out “I’m not listening?? for 25 piercing seconds at the end of “Listening,” it does little to contribute to the album’s lyrical drive and at the same time repels listeners who may want to escape from the ear-splitting and ineffective shrieking. It’s a challenge...