Word: listening
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...agenda for his new job, Shapiro, who will be Princeton's first Jewish president as well as the first president in 120 years to be chosen from outside its faculty, cites minority enrollment and a richer core curriculum as general concerns. His first task, says Shapiro, is "to listen to students, faculty and alumni." He adds, "I hope I will get wiser as I begin to develop ideas with the faculty and others...
...beyond the pale" and asserted that some political speech "shouldn't be tolerated." There can be little doubt that most thoughtful Americans are strongly opposed to the repressive policies of the current South African regime. But surely freedom of speech, if it means anything, means freedom to speak and listen to ideas which do not comport with law professors' subjective assessments of community values. The suggestion that Mr. Kent-Brown's speech is less worthy of protection because it is only political is particularly offensive; taken seriously, it could lead to the effective silencing of any political speech which...
...Beatles passed him by, and so did hard rock, soft rock, punk, heavy metal and all their noisy alloys. That makes Michael Feinstein, 30, either the oldest young singer of the '80s or the youngest old singer. Or perhaps both. What does he like? Just sit back and listen to the first number on his enchanting album, Live at the Algonquin (Parnassus Records): "Wanna sing a show tune,/ Good old Broadway show tune,/ Nothing that has no tune,/ Something that has heart./ Something you can hum, or can strum by the hour...
Irony and astonishment are the orders of the day. In Pennsylvania, Nigel sits in on a college history class, only to find that the topic under discussion is how to cope with two children and a divorce. Adam, for his part, can only listen in bemusement as a woman named Ira Funk whisks him through her architectural folly in Venice, Calif., chuckling, "Those Tudors just could never have dreamed up even one small bit of this." The meeting of John Doe and John Bull is frequently incongruous. " 'What's the matter, Baby,' a nun with a beard and sparkle...
...ordinary Afrikaners look at the difficult choices confronting them? Listen to some of them...