Word: listening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady . . . Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddamn secret yet? And don't you know--listen to me now--don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself Buddy...
...LISTEN: the most fascinating thing about this book is the way Vonnegut uses the Tralfamadorian understanding of time to deal with the importance of death. Tralfamadore is the planet 446,120,000,000,000,000 miles away, to which Billy Pilgrim is kidnapped. Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments of time in the same way we can look at a whole range of the Rocky Mountains. For those who can travel in time (Billy Pilgrim can and does) any particular moment can be visited. Nothing is "future"; nothing is "past." All moments exist, always have, and always will...
While the votes were being tabulated Alan E. Heimert, Master of Eliot House, urged the crowd to listen to the demands of the black students. "There is a great deal more to be heard, a great deal more to be understood," he said. "The blacks have presented specific concerns that are extraordinary and that require an extraordinary response from the University...
...been reduced to 350 to 400. Still chanting, they marched around the Loeb and back to the Yard via Garden Street. After passing through the north doors of University Hall one more time, the march disbanded on the Mem Church steps, with some of the marchers sitting down to listen to the broadcast of the Faculty meeting and the rest going back to whatever it was they were doing before it all began...
...record of Harvard's readiness to listen to--and act on--demands for change is persuasive evident that the student confrontation was wilfully (sic) sought, not to reform but to destroy. In every area from the institution of a pioneering major in Afro-American studies to termination of academic credit for membership in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, Harvard showed not only an awareness of the need for change but did change...