Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercials. Some of the defenseless passengers objected strongly enough to protest to the Public Utilities Commission. Defeated there, they went to court. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed unanimously with the protesting passengers, ruled that they have a constitutional right not to listen while they ride...
...these problems, they often need someone to talk to-a person they can trust and whose advice they can respect. And sometimes they would rather not talk about these things to members of their families or to their friends. That is what Mr. Peace will be here for-to listen and help...
...wait "week after week" until a troubled worker can bring himself to tell his whole story. Peace does not see his job in terms of "preaching little sermons or sitting as a judge. The person with the problem is the one who should talk," he says, "I simply listen to people, try to understand them, try to help them understand themselves, and do what I can to help them...
From a narrow corridor where engineers were dismantling sound equipment, a sudden flash of broadcast oratory from the General Assembly session at Flushing Meadows rent the air: ". . . Violations of sovereignty . . . third world war . . ." "Listen to him," said one of the technicians with a grin. "That's old Katz-Suchy, the Polish delegate...
Friends got Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, to come to the hospital and listen to the music while Mrs. Davidson played it. Fiedler was impressed, offered to send an arranger to set it for orchestra, asked Dartmouth man ('47) Grant: "How would you like Evening Prayer introduced by the Pops on Dartmouth night?" Between astonishment and gratefulness, Grant just said, "Dear God!" At week's end, Ed Sullivan had scheduled both Grant and Evening Prayer for a June airing on his Toast of the Town (CBS-TV). Composer Grant, back at Cushing, was happily pecking away...