Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What was going on here? Well, it all seems to have started in the inventive head of Jose Arguelles, an erstwhile art historian who is a dedicated publicist for his book The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (Bear Publishing; Santa Fe). To anyone who would listen, Arguelles argued that his studies of ancient Mayan calendars showed that the "materialistic" world would end on Aug. 16 -- when three planets lined up with the new moon -- unless 144,000 true believers gathered in various "sacred sites" around the world and "resonated" sufficiently to bring on a new age of peace and harmony...
...Administration has already backed a U.N. Security Council resolution, passed in June, that called for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, an exchange of prisoners and peace negotiations. Tehran has so far refused to listen to the call. But that, says Sick, should discourage no one. He and most other experts agree that in dealing with fundamentalist radicalism, the most important weapons in the American arsenal are probably firmness and patience...
Ultimately, the question is whether anyone should care that much about Ritchie Valens. He has no roots, and no commitment to much of anything other than fame, repeating his incantation to anyone who will listen: "One day I will be a star because stars don't fall...
When E.F. Hutton talks to its employees these days, they are expected not only to listen but also to take out their crayons. Last week the firm began distributing, at a cost of $50,000, The Hutton Neighborhood Coloring Book and a box of crayons to its 18,500 workers. The purpose is to boost staff morale, which was battered by Hutton's 1985 guilty plea to a check-overdraft scheme and further bruised by the company's $90 million loss last year...
...still wound up three or four hours later." Karasu points out that nonadaptive behavior, or the inability to cope with freeway stress, could lead to heart attacks or strokes for some. He advises motorists to relax by thinking they are passengers in an airplane with a captain running things. "Listen to music, daydream, focus on things you normally don't find time to think about," says Karasu. "Above all else, accept that you are where you are, and there is nothing that you can do about...