Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first that I've met from outside Cambridge, Mass." Kennedy, however, quickly got over his hesitation about accepting advice from someone unconnected with either Harvard or M.I.T. Walter Heller was so persuasive -- and so adept at translating economic jargon into everyday language -- that the whole nation came to listen, and profit. When he died last week of a heart attack at 71, he had been out of Government office for 23 years, but his high- pitched Midwestern twang still rang loud in every debate over economic policy, commanding the respect even of Republican economists who disagreed with his Democratic Keynesianism...
...find the selection of this speech doubly astounding when I consider the field of fine speeches you had to choose from. As a competitor in the first round, I had the opportunity to listen to a number of the entries, and there were several impressive candidates. I recall in particular a speech delivered on the theme of being an Oklahoman that was one of the finest pieces of oratory I ever had the pleasure of hearing. So you and the committee that chose Ms. Fingerman cannot hide behind the defense that this was the best you could unearth...
...concerts coincided with the celebrations of Berlin's 750th anniversary, and the bands, amplified by loudspeakers, could be heard on both sides of the Wall. On the second night 3,000 young East Germans gathered to listen to the music from the West. A police line blocked them from approaching the border fortifications, and as the crowd began to chant and jeer, the police charged, dragging dozens of young people to security vans...
...potent that his every move sent global financial markets into spasmodic guessing games about what he was thinking. He towered physically above his colleagues, yet instead of lording over them and issuing orders in his basso profundo voice, he preferred to lean back in his big chair and quietly listen to other people's ideas...
...things that last and last and last. Then follows the embrace of his high political compatriots, the more-or-less board of directors of the consortium of major industrialized free powers, a comforting, clubby, forgiving group, every one of them scarred and battered and worried. They listen and sympathize and even laugh with one another. They are pols, one and all, a now international order that polls and prays and parades for the people. Then they pass...