Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charges behaved like gentlemen. They dressed in white man's clothing, smiled amiably at everybody they met, carefully imitated their host's actions. They were more amused than awed by civilization, finding telephones and streetcars especially delightful. When Medeiros' phone rang, they would pick it up, listen a while, then let loose peals of gleeful laughter. They spent hours leaning out the window, watching Rio's aged, dark-green streetcars clatter...
Over the years, educators began to listen closely to the live & learn philosophy. And so many students' fees poured into Teachers College because of Kilpatrick that he came to be known as the "Million Dollar Professor." In school after school, teachers began to turn away from traditional subject matter, adopting in its stead the Kilpatrick "project method." His books were translated into seven languages; "activity programs" began cropping up in classrooms all over the world, stressing creation over memory, interest over coercion, how to think over what to think...
...Anybody Listening? The wider issue, the question of wage stabilization, was not so easily settled. The Truman Administration sent in a team of speechmakers to urge the C.I.O. to take it easy on the wage front. Truman opened the discussion in his message to the convention. "We must get our own defense production program rolling in high gear," he said, "and we must find the way to do this without bringing on renewed inflation ... It means restrained and responsible actions by businessmen, farmers-and workers, too . . ." Later, after a $15-a-plate roast beef dinner, Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle...
...danger, she contended, is that the man who thinks a little differently, may feel himself a suspect. She said that "in order to maintain freedom, one must make choices, and in order to make choices, one must listen to all sides...
...Astoria ballroom, and set to work tuning them -with a sledge hammer. This did no particular damage, because the "instruments" were made from 50-gallon steel oil drums. Tuned up, the Trinidad Invaders Steel Band gave a surprised New York Herald Tribune Forum audience something far more harmonious to listen to last week than the clangorous world affairs they had been discussing...