Word: earshot
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When people all about him are keeping their heads, Tom Wolfe can be counted on to lose his. Let him get within earshot of a consensus, an article of faith so obviously true that every right-thinking soul in the country must bow down, and he will ask. What is going on here? Wolfe has been posing the same question ever since he appeared, trailing clouds of asterisks, as the bad boy of '60s journalism. This collection of eleven articles (written between 1967 and 1976) shows that he is steadily getting better at finding unsettling answers...
...considerably more likely than the first, this explanation is undercut by the fact that the junta had deprived Letelier of his Chilean citizenship a scant two weeks before his death. This must also be tied to the fact that the bomb which killed him went off within eye and earshot of the Chilean embassy in Washington. For the junta to have killed Letelier in Washington so close upon having denationalized him would indicate not only a ruthless cold-bloodedness (which the junta certainly possesses), but also a lack of political and diplomatic understanding too gross even for the Chilean dictators...
...turn to address the crowd. Declaring that he had been a stock-car fan for 25 years, Carter promised that if he was elected President the drivers would be invited to the White House. Standing ten feet away, Dole remarked to anyone within earshot: "It's going to be a busy place...
...Monday, more than 250 chanting demonstrators, mostly students, circled in front of Mass Hall, listened to speakers from member groups of the Task Force for Affirmative Action, and then marched to the Graduate School of Design, within earshot of the HEW officials...
...recently demanded that a millionaire yachtsman put away his crummy checkbook, pay cash or get out. Last week a stroller who was killing time before a matinee was loudly condemned as "your typical woman shopper." She retorted with "sexist clod"- but only when she was safely out of earshot...