Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been talking to Brian Offut since he read our letter, and he believes that his approach to student government has been misunderstood. He will make that case to the membership on election night, and I wll be listening with an open mind. I will listen too, along with the rest of the membership, to Melissa Lane, and to whoever else seeks office...
...little lambs, these girls. I mean it...It was my job to chase guys away and yell profanities, like "I'll get your mother for this!" and crap like that. Until I realized that it was more profitable the other way. I mean one of the girls would say, "Listen, for 100 francs, maybe you could go blind for five minutes..." By the end of that year, I had gone blind so often I could pay my own tuition--$6500--and Prince Paul of Ethiopia and I had become such good buddies that we opened a clandestine after-hours secret...
Bell related this anecdote Wednesday in the introductory lecture for his course "Political Sociology," Sociology 129. Although it was registration day and the first day of "shopping" for classes, he did not allow several students to listen to his lecture because they arrived after he had started speaking. He complained that such interruptions interfere with his lecturing, in which he enters what he calls a "semitrance" state. He was more concerned with maintaining his trance than with teaching--the ostensible purpose of his lecture...
...country. Despite the progress that has been made, racism is all too pervasive in the U.S., and the economic and social inequalities that separate Blacks and whites are staggering. Too many Americans, intoxicated with their own self-righteousness, choose to wave their flags in the face of racism and listen to the man (Ronald Reagan) who twists the words of our heroes, like Dr. King, to fit his political agenda...
...Make it quick, Old Man. I've got a date with my girl." You listen to him swing from the bottle and feel a white sheet flutter down around your neck. You look at the sheet, the curious bloodstains...