Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work each morning looking fresh, neatly dressed and alert. By the end of every day, the young doctor is frazzled, disheveled and red-eyed, while his colleague is as fresh and neat as ever. Finally, the younger psychiatrist asks, "How do you stay fresh after a whole day of listening to people's troubles?" The older psychiatrist pauses and replies, "I never listen...
Despite all the fuss this fall about students giving input to Harvard's governing boards, there is one group of trustees on campus, Radcliffe's, which permits students to listen in and contribute to debate. Although the three representatives from the Radcliffe Union of Students can't vote, they certainly can make their cases heard--when they want to, that...
...Listen to these guys, and you may suspect that Platoon is not so much a movie as a Rorschach blot. But that is part of the caginess of Stone's approach. The French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once wrote that when a good film is also a popular film, it is because of a misunderstanding. Platoon could very well be misunderstood into superhit status. The army of Rambomaniacs will love the picture because it delivers more bang for the buck; all those yellow folks blow up real good. Aging lefties can see the film as a demonstration...
November was drawing to a close, and though the Iran arms scandal was an accelerating political danger, the President, even in private conversation, still refused to concede error. George Bush confided to a friend that he was troubled by Ronald Reagan's position. "He won't even listen to the word mistake," related Bush. The President, he told the friend, had to make some kind of move. It was a rare lapse for the fastidious Vice President: even with close friends, he maintains a total blackout about his dealings with Reagan...
...possible, or so Administration optimists devoutly hope, that the crisis may actually prove helpful. The investigations, along with the need to deal with a Democratic Congress, just might bring out the pragmatist in a chastened President, causing him to listen to more moderate advisers and tilt toward compromises. But if he is to act rather than react, the President badly needs to put forward some bold new proposals. After six years in office, however, his Administration is showing telltale signs of creative burnout. Its early initiatives -- cutting taxes, pressing deregulation and launching an expensive U.S. military buildup, for example -- have...