Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha" and "Lusia" (or "Andryushenka" and "Lyusenka"), as they address each other. But the KGB's chilling presence invariably reasserts itself. As Bonner's title puts it, she and Sakharov are truly alone together...
...planning to go out when Andrei walked in. I rushed to him, and he said warily, "Don't be overjoyed, I have only got three hours." I must have looked puzzled, because he immediately added, "Sokolov came to see me again, he wants me to write certain papers." Without listening to anything else, I got upset and shouted, "The KGB can go f itself!" Andrei said calmly and quietly, "Just listen to me. They want you to write that if you are given permission to travel to see your mother and children and to get treatment, you will not hold...
...amid the many citations of the 1958 sermon--in which Falwell said "the true negro doesn't want integration" and that "the hand of Moscow" could be seen behind the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision--was the disturbing fact that most of those who listen to Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour don't see past the lavish tabernacle and the choir's shimmering white robes...
Warren had just stopped to listen for a few minutes and said that he was completely surprised when Parsons picked him out of the audience. "I felt silly," he said...
What's more, they can ponderously lament that they have been cursed with big breasts, thrust into a society that won't listen to them and terrorized...