Word: listening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which preached a fanatical hatred of whites based less on actual injustice than on a mystic prediction of black world dominance. All the young men are impressionable, violence-prone, and this particular Muslimism appeals to their worst instincts. Three are trained in the precincts of San Quentin, where they listen to cassettes urging the destruction of whites and learn how to kill with a single blow to the larynx, chest or neck. Since all these activities come under the heading of "religion," prison authorities are prevented from interfering...
...shouting, "Walk, Walk," but it's awful hard not to run because this is tear gas. Sporadic fence-cutting continues, and the police don't like it. They've been on duty all morning, and they want to disperse this crowd, not Mace them one-on-one and listen to taunts...
...march and a rally and some meetings and a little Mace, and some independent fence-cutting. But they'll keep building Seabrook, at least until next spring when you and your affinity group come back to shut it down again. So you talk with friends, for a while and listen to the spokes meeting, and then, in a gusty 45-degree wind you crawl into your sleeping bag. The Guard are down on the railroad tracks--30 of them 20 yards away--in helmets. They don't want to talk, they just want to stand there, and you sleep...
...maced three times this weekend, and I experienced violence. But I also saw people helping each other, listening to each other, and coming together for a purpose. For three days, I was part of a community of peaceful people who were scared of something and knew we had to risk getting hurt to stop it. But many people do not listen because they refuse to see the danger; the devastation an accident will cause is incomprehensible...
...fade away") and The Kids Are Alright were youth anthems in the best sense, brash and savage declarations of independence. Even the rock opera Tommy, with its dazzling music locked in perpetual combat with a convoluted narrative, passed the palm to the audience as Tommy sang to his followers: "Listening to you I get the music/ Gazing at you I get the heat." Reverse the title of Who Are You, and the point comes clear; listen to Music Must Change, one of the album's best cuts, and Townshend's fusion of music and audience is complete: "Deep...