Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ahmad Husein told Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Gordon Walker flatly that they would have no part of Sukarno's "guided democracy" or of his Emergency Cabinet. When told they were about to be visited by the chief of the Emergency Cabinet, Colonel Husein answered: "We'll listen politely, but continue on our chosen path." Both Husein and Simbolon said that they felt Sukarno was on the decline, indicated quite openly that they would prefer to see him replaced with someone else, possibly the Sultan of Djokjakarta. They also want to see Mohammed Hatta, a Sumatran currently...
Emperor Ming Huang was also a great lover of nature. Homesick for mountains, he one day ordered two of his painters to reproduce the scenery of the Kialing Valley. Artist Wu Tao-tzu went out to lie under the trees, listen to the murmuring streams. Then, having identified himself with the scene, he took his brush, dashed off One Hundred Miles of the Kialing River Valley in a single day. Artist Li Ssu-hsun, who was also a general in the Emperor's army, labored for long months to depict the same scene. Presented to the Emperor, both paintings...
Afternoon of a Fan. To opera buffs, Saturday afternoon is a dedicated time. Many communities have formed opera luncheons and listening clubs in homes, music stores, auditoriums and churches across the U.S. More solitary listeners pull shades, take the phone off the hook and even lock their doors. Wrote one fan, too old to attend the Met any more: "On Saturdays, I get my black velvet dress out of its box. And I dress my hair and put a fresh flower in a vase beside me. After all, I am to spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses...
...went off with one of Washington's biggest bangs, and the Administration, caught unawares, reacted with near-fatal slowness. This was partly because of the respect George Humphrey has won as the recognized strong man of the Eisenhower Cabinet. "When George talks," another Cabinet member once said, "we listen." Humphrey has generally been worth listening to. At 67, he has applied to U.S. fiscal policy the same firm, careful hand that he used in bringing Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. from a snarled tangle of mining miscellany to a mighty corporation with holdings worth $250 million...
...given me, and I am sure other Harvard Alumni, a sense of pride to note that Harvard, under the leadership of Dr. Pusey, has maintained a high degree of Academic Freedom, and has refused to pay homage to those who would have us listen only to those voices with which we are in complete agreement...