Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military aid. The Caribbean Basin Initiative of 1982 holds out additional economic hope for the nations of the region. Even Cuba seems to offer the possibility for rapprochement. Against such a record the constant liberal clamor for talks loses cogency. Why talk with someone who has no reason to listen? Ronald Reagan and his Administration have provided forceful incentive for both the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran right to sit up and pay attention...
...threat to students' legitimate exercise of their rights to protest. Bok's letter is aimed at squelching potential student protest against the presence on campus of such mass murderers as Secretary of War Weinberger '38 and Presidents' Botha of South Africa. Bok says students should sit quickly and listen politely to these butchers and then--maybe--ask few questions at the end. This comes in the wake of the statement made by some faculty Council members that Adolf Hitler himself would be welcome to come to Harvard and "speak freely in favor of anti-Semitism." (Crimson. 5 April 1983). Harvard...
...said that he attempts "to bring all those who listen to my voice to that conversion of heart" concerning racism and other issues...
...movie avoids both sentimentality and sententiousness. Its portrait of a lower-middle-class marriage is as incisive and coldblooded as anything TV has shown. Yet the violence is frequently underplayed to good effect. In one scene, the couple's three children huddle together on a bed and listen impassively to the screams and blows coming from the other room. When the front door slams, they troop in unison to the window to watch the fight continue outside. A dozen graphic scenes could not tell us more about the numbing familiarity of this domestic reign of terror...
...many men say the happiest memories of their mothers are those that center on a childhood illness, when the boys dropped their fears of appearing unmanly and allowed themselves to be comforted unstintingly. "My mother would sit near my bed after she brought me lunch, and we'd listen to soap operas together," one man recalled. "When I went back to school, it was as if I'd been completely revitalized...