Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purpose here is not to demand nomenclatural justice for rural Southerners. You don't have to listen to very many Hank Williams Jr. songs ("You can send me to hell or New York City; it would be about the same to me,") to realize that elitists' contempt for country folks is returned in kind...
YEAH, dad, listen. I'll go. Let's make a whole year...
Gorbachev may also have been displeased by a pair of letters, pro and con, about his own performance as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet. "Many thanks to M.S. Gorbachev for his self-control, his modesty, his culture, his ability to listen, to restrain and persuade several undisciplined Deputies," went one missive. But another writer castigated Gorbachev for "the way he forces his opinion on Deputies, his commentaries on many speeches, the elections without alternative candidates, the pressure shown during voting...
...worst case scenario, students may actually begin to listen to their advisors...
...only feasible action was to write off the entire weekend and gawk at the tourists, visiting college students and wistful alums. And listen--to the hi-fi din of dining-hall parties, to the crunch of empty beer cans against foreheads, and to roommate talk...