Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keith Morris, another controller at the same center, complains that pilots talk too often on their radios and do not listen carefully to the controllers. When any pilot close to a control center presses his mike button, it blocks other nearby flight crews from hearing the controller. "It is not unusual to sit on a radar position and have a pilot respond that he's blocked over and over again," says Morris. "Radio discipline has become atrocious...
Philip Caputo, author of A Rumour of War, commanded a platoon at Danang in 1965. He describes in his book how some of the veterans tried to describe to the inexperienced Marines what it was all about, and how the new recruits refused to listen. "They had already been where we were going, to that frontier between life and death, but none of us wanted to listen to them," Caputo writes. "So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its own war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same illusions, and learn the same...
Thus with The End..., we watch (listen carefully) a play about a playwright trying to write about a play about the nuclear issue. In the first moments, Michael Trent is approached by a very wealthy mystery man named Philip Stone (Jeremy Geidt), who has devised a brief dramatic outline concerning nuclear war. He offers Trent a huge commission to base a play upon it. With stern eyes and a solemn bearing, Geidt is wonderfully menacing as he compels the confused playwright to take on the task. As Trent, Howard displays a suitably messy mixture of opportunism, hesitation, and curiosity...
...Concepcion, where we had electricity only from 6 in the evening to 6 in the morning. I would think to myself, This is getting to be too much. Then I got to be a soap-opera addict. It was the only thing to keep me company, so I'd listen to the radio. Thank God for transistor radios! I also learned how to knit, things I wasn't particularly attracted to before. Suddenly I became such a homebody, knitting while listening to soap operas. Then trying to cook. It was really a very boring existence. If I hadn...
...President, appearing befuddled by the growing scandal that in one bizarre month has poleaxed public confidence in his leadership, seemed willing to listen but not hear. As former aides cloaked themselves in the Fifth Amendment, and new revelations poured forth, Reagan kept repeating that he wanted all the facts to emerge. Yet he did nothing on his own to break open the mysteries. Revealing an insouciance that is the dark side of his charm, he told a friend, "I watch every day like everybody else to find out what will come out. I'm as puzzled and interested as anybody...