Word: listening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Samuelson, a leading Keynesian economist, has complained that Friedman's students are "brainwashed" because they cannot stand up to their teacher in classroom discussion. But nobody questions Friedman's popularity on the campus; in addition to his 30 regular students, another 100 drop in to his classes to listen. Some of Friedman's followers do take too literally the ideas that Friedman states in extreme form partly for shock value. "That is an effective device to get people's attention," Friedman admits. It also adds zest to economic dialogue. Samuelson says: "To keep the fish that they carried...
...highway I would look at people in other cars heading south and they'd look at me. Sometimes we exchanged smiles and waved, then one driver would speed up and they disappeared. I would sit back and listen to the radio outblast the highway wind, wondering who they were, where they were going and thinking that maybe they were listening to the same song, wondering about...
...When they have 5000 signatures, then the Coop will start to listen." Zavelle said, several days...
...spurned Percy's amendment, Minority Leader Hugh Scott angrily took to the floor to denounce political blundering by the Treasury and, implicitly, by the White House. "The Treasury," he said, "has gone down to a resounding and, I suppose, glorious defeat. I do hope that my Administration will listen the next time we try to advise them that legislatively we understand more about tactics and strategy than they...
...Dean Ford note in his farewell address, the Faculty debates were often not pleasant to listen to. Yet they were not fundamentally attacks upon either his integrity or his character, but rather clashes over the structure of decision-making the Faculty required in the present era. It was not Faculty members occasional lapses in the heat of debate, but rather their final ovation for Dean Ford, which showed the estimation they and the rest of the Harvard community accord him for his undeniable achievements in an exciting position, and for his qualities as a scholar...