Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Artistically, this is fine and good, but can you dance to it? Not really, admits the band. "Men of Clay's the kind of stuff you just want to listen to on the headphones with your eyes closed," Tom Hammond says. Hence Men of Clay's new venture: The Quick...
...your way up to Vermont to pull your kid out." And in Vanity Fair, James Wolcott wrote an almost scholarly piece on the chroniclers of the young and wasted, pronouncing them "too numb to feel, to cool to care...Current fiction is festooned with their razor cuts and insignia. Listen closely and the lite-FM melodies of Ann Beattie snarl into a more hostile noise...
power: a series of all-out strokes that a shell uses to try to surge ahead of its opponents. Listen for coxswains calling for power during the Head...
Others, led by Chief of Staff Howard Baker, were telling the President to save his remaining political capital for other battles he needs to fight, such as ratification of an arms treaty with the Soviets and continued aid to the contras. Reagan would be wise to listen to his chief of staff. Reagan would be even wiser to ask a moderate of Baker's stature to succeed Lewis. Powell on the Supreme Court...
...then the entire concept of a "right to protest" is a fallacy. If a protester's arguments are not strong enough to stand on their own, they should be thought out until they are strong enough, and then be presented in their own forum, to those who wish to listen. Consistent with Orenstein's ideas on abdication of personal responsibility, however, it seems most protesters at Harvard don't have the responsibility to make sure of their arguments' strength. Literally at a loss for words, those protesters' only means for ideological survival is to deny the existence of the opposition...