Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 35 million voters in 630 parliamentary constituencies had three weeks in which to listen, question, heckle and then, on May 26, to vote. Even before the first campaign oratory vibrated over trim farmlands, past black smokestacks, across cobbled village streets and town squares, the vast proportion had already made up their minds. Unless an astounding landslide is in the making-and few think one is-roughly 12 million to 13 million Britons are steadfastly for Labor and about the same number, or slightly fewer, are habitually Conservative. Perhaps 500 of Commons' seats are therefore already spoken...
...Americans don't like the way the Peking regime was established," he thundered. "How about the way America was established? It's necessary for us to tell our U.S. friends to grow up ... They must listen to us with more respect . . . We have acquired more wisdom than [America]. If this is the path she intends to tread, we don't intend to tread it with...
...fought two wars against the Germans. But if you are going to perpetuate hate, you'll never have peace. If you live in hate, you'll never bring peace to the world, my friend." The crowd loved it. "Bah," bellowed a husky throat. "Bah," echoed Eden. "Just listen to that answer. Any sheep can make that noise...
Today, people listen more attentively when Lewis hammers away at his old conviction that both civilization and art depend on a far-seeing law and order. Mysticism, "unconscious'" expression, addled emotionalism are his .pet hates. He stands up for personal "consciousness" in an epoch in which civilization has half-drowned itself in mass emotion and the seas of the Freudian unconscious. As long ago as 1914 Wyndham Lewis was pouring curses upon Mother Nature and shaggy beards, arguing that master gardeners and stern hairdressers are the truest symbols of civilization...
...place. And, if 25 of the women were dancing, another 25 were sitting sullenly in the two long lines of chairs on either wall--some watching the gaiety with scorn, others gazing vacantly out the windows, while still others were constantly chattering to themselves and to anyone who would listen...