Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each participant undergoes "psycho-correctional therapy," which includes lectures and discussions on fighting criminal behavior. Inmates listen to motivational tapes with titles like "Think Positive" and "Improving Relationships." Psychologist Nanolla Yazdani leads spirited talks on psychology and decision making. "You have the guts to break the law," he admonishes. "I want you to have the guts to break your bad habits too." Says he: "The closest thing to what we do is a brain transplant...
...much as a nod. They walk peacefully, unconcerned, and use the time to chat with each other, catching up on the week's news. By now, the mothers are accustomed to the inevitable photographs of tourists and are eager to tell their story to anyone who will stop to listen. Each one, after all, has her story, as do eight, ten, twenty, thirty thousand other Argentine mothers. They recite their disappeared child's full name, occupation and date of disappearance quickly and emphatically as if rehearsed a hundred times...
...Listen! The London air is sweet with jubilation. Few cars this day, and no Klaxons in the central part of town. Just bells pealing gaily and the sound of horses prancing in unison along the Mall. A great fanfare of trumpets arises from Westminster Abbey, and the stirring chords of Elgar resound through the vaulted nave. Then a hush. Through the breath-held stillness, two voices ring out. "I will." "I will." And then a great roar from outside, and rising above the spellbound listeners, beautiful and light, an aria by Mozart, and then another...
...fleet enough to get an audience moving and tough enough to make them stop and think once the beat lets go. Scott Kempner plays a hard guitar, writes most of the Del-Lords' material and takes his lead vocals on songs the way a pistolero goes for his gun. Listen to him talk, and it quickly becomes clear that he wants the audience to share the band's life-or-death dedication to the music. "We're doing a pretty damn good job of playing good, honest rock 'n' roll," Kempner says. "We haven't sent people running...
...spirit when much of the Top Ten has all the aggression of a goose-down quilt. "Through the '70s, people became isolated," Kempner reflects. "They became isolated from their music, from their government. We hark back to an older tradition. We have something to say to the people who listen...