Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans off their duffs," as he puts it, and impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says he, "I talk about America-about strength, courage, challenge, clean living, faith, the American dream...
...talk ranged over a variety of personal concerns-the shading elm tree in the front yard that had to come down, a son who seldom came to visit, all the small but vital concerns of an old woman in a house and a life that for many years had been too empty. In content, it was very little different from the 150 calls a month received by 323-1819, which is the number of a service known as Dial-a-Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author...
...widow living in this house alone. I was so lonesome tonight I had to talk to someone. What bothers me is the loneliness, not talking to anyone...
Anonymity is scrupulously observed. No one ever knows who the other person is, and no one ever asks. "People feel free to talk when they know their friends or family will never know what's being said," observes Director Moore. "They tell us things they can't talk about to someone they know." If Dial-a-Listener works, it is because there is loneliness at both ends of the line. The listeners seem to get as much out of it as their callers. But many of the calls are like unfinished stories that have a beginning...
Class Perspective. The manual told students how to get jobs: "You're not afraid to work is the idea to get across"; "Don't dress like a slob." It also explained how to act: "Don't talk to workers like you know everything and they know nothing." It summed up the program's purpose: To get across "the identity of interests of students and workers" and spell out "the relationship of the Viet Nam and the other imperialist wars to their immediate demands, to the fact that they and their sons die in the war, that...