Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tied Hands & Feet. He took a trip around the world, telling anyone who would listen of the injustices suffered by Cambodia under the French colonial system. Said he in Manhattan: "In economic matters they have our hands and feet tied; we cannot import and export freely and we have no freedom of taxation. Our police cannot touch them." The French insist on taking Cambodian troops under their command, said Norodom, and he warned: "If we have an invasion of the sort that Laos has suffered recently, I am not at all certain that I can call for a general mobilization...
Blanchard, a refugee from Gardner, Mass., keeps his listeners occupied with zany projects. He does not openly suggest green hair or cat's whiskers, which seem to come naturally to his audience. He. has kept them busy mailing him dirt to "help fill up San Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about...
...presence of their elders, the kids profess to take Red in their stride. One junior high school girl says: "He's so corny, he's good." Another teen-ager existentially says: "He exists." A third explains: "You're not a real cool cat unless you listen to him. Everybody at school discusses his show next day, so you have to know what he said." Pleased with his fans, Blanchard is even more pleased with the eight sponsors who last week were paying him $12,000 a year. He has no notion of going network...
...mayor, Petrds Georgacopoulis, was more receptive. At the visitors' request, he summoned the village leaders to Kalavryta's new hotel to listen to the man and woman. While this meeting was going on, black-dressed women gathered in the lobby. They said and did nothing, but the bitterness in their eyes told a story...
...These facts, like all the facts of creation, demand of men and women and children that they meet them. The task is to rid our ears of the racket of ideas and explanations by which we seek vainly and miserably to deafen our selves. It is to listen for encounters with God's facts. This I know...