Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government makes plans for energy independence, it counts on American petro-chemical technology. When white South Africans are anxious about their future, American businessmen offer assurances that our government will support their brutality. When Harvard and other wealthy educational institutions defend Americans investment in South Africa, the whole world listen and the days of oppression and injustice are lengthened...
Lecturer in Jewish studies Erich Goldhagen said he asked the refugees to share their stories to dramatize the course's examination of the sociology of human slaughter. It was Chorn's second visit to the Harvard class: many students who heard his tale last year returned to listen again to the story of suffering...
PECK'S GREATEST ASSET is a lively imagination. In one piece, she sends her dancers on a library tour that initiates the young student into the awe inspiring depths of stacks of dusty volumes. But these industrious kids do more than just listen to the tour guide. They are literally and physically carried away by the "waves of knowledge" contained in the library. Their hands twitch at the thought of all that "knowledge at their fingertips." Almost all of the dances in the first act display this whimsy. It is a quality that enhances both the assumed playfulness...
...botanical gardens are lush, humid peaceful and beautiful. They're a great place to wait for someone. You can listen to the birds and to waterfalls, wander around realizing what you could do with your window garden if you only gave it a little time. People practice flutes, read poetry, taken maps on the stone benches...
...source, Ferriola contended that Charles (Chuckie) English, 70, once an aide to former Chicago Boss Sam Giancana, was trying to regain the power he had lost after Giancana was killed in 1975. Complained Ferriola: "Chuckie's been bad-mouthing me all over Chicago. He tells everyone who will listen what a bunch of bums...