Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tonight." After a song & dance, she launched into a ten-minute lecture on the evils of Communism. The disappointed freshmen lobbed about a quarter's worth of pennies at the stage, and one grumbled later, "The whole idea was to have a good time, not listen to politics. She didn't show good taste." Next day Sally indignantly denied that she had walked tearfully off stage at the penny treatment. Said she: "Why, I had a wonderful time, and I hope the boys...
...goal of every teacher in a great university is to achieve a feeling of intimacy on a large scale." The crowd which packs Emerson 211 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to listen to Professor Sigmund Neumann talk on "Europe in World Politics" attests to his success in doing just that...
...meetings sponsored by Harvard Clubs turned into athletic bull sessions, with former players and coaches taking a leading part. The University says that it has no control over the actions of alumni--that it can do nothing if a local Harvard Club would rather show football movies than listen to a speech on General Education. This is a dangerous doctrine. While Harvard's admission policy is certainly not heavily weighted toward football players at the present time, there are other colleges which also started off "unable to control their alumni" and later found themselves unable to control their own admissions...
...until the proposals for dropping pork-barrel items began piling up in the pantry, and the budget-cutters began to replace broad-gauged words with some specific proposals, could the U.S. taxpayer settle back and listen to the pleasant sputter of frying...
...proving a fertile breeding ground for Communist agitators. For what does Communism promise a hungry, landless, debt-ridden, discontented person? Why, a full stomach, some hectares of land, cancellation of what he owes-and a better way of life. Is it any wonder that people who are without hope listen to the sound of these Pied Pipers...