Comments on: The Diplomatic Art Of Listening http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:35:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: boogiecheck http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439702 boogiecheck Mon, 12 May 2008 00:23:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439702 <blockquote><p>What better way to pave an opening of the heart and mind than through music. Bravo.</p></blockquote> <p>Yes–music can be such a great unifier! What an intuitive professor you had!</p> <p>I’m sorry to hear of Quaker Girl. Prayers for her and her family.</p>

What better way to pave an opening of the heart and mind than through music. Bravo.

Yes–music can be such a great unifier! What an intuitive professor you had!

I’m sorry to hear of Quaker Girl. Prayers for her and her family.

]]> By: CarolynU http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439395 CarolynU Sun, 11 May 2008 19:01:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439395 <p>I love this post. Thank you Christy. And Happy Mothers Day, to you and all of you.</p> I love this post. Thank you Christy. And Happy Mothers Day, to you and all of you.

]]> By: OldCoastie http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439361 OldCoastie Sun, 11 May 2008 18:18:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439361 <p>talk about transformational - let’s not forget the <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/06/22/for_venezuelas_poor_music_opens_doors/" rel="nofollow">Venezuelan classical music program for poor kids</a></p> <p>quite impressive!</p> talk about transformational – let’s not forget the Venezuelan classical music program for poor kids

quite impressive!

]]> By: whitewidow http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439353 whitewidow Sun, 11 May 2008 18:12:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439353 <p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87991800" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/templates/s…..800</a></p> <p>sorry, can’t ever seem to get my links to work.</p> http://www.npr.org/templates/s…..800

sorry, can’t ever seem to get my links to work.

]]> By: whitewidow http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439352 whitewidow Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439352 <p>This is a link to an NPR story about an incredible moment that happened during the NYP’s performance of “Arirang” in North Korea.</p> <p>Well worth the listen.</p> <p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87991800" rel="nofollow"></a></p> This is a link to an NPR story about an incredible moment that happened during the NYP’s performance of “Arirang” in North Korea.

Well worth the listen.

]]> By: tw3k http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439345 tw3k Sun, 11 May 2008 18:04:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439345 <p>very good, thank you.</p> very good, thank you.

]]> By: ffein http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439318 ffein Sun, 11 May 2008 17:38:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439318 <p>That program was a beautiful illustration of the importance of the arts, especially when words fail. One of my favorite definitions from the thesaurus is “Speech: A faculty given to man to conceal his thoughts” (Tallyrand).</p> That program was a beautiful illustration of the importance of the arts, especially when words fail. One of my favorite definitions from the thesaurus is “Speech: A faculty given to man to conceal his thoughts” (Tallyrand).

]]> By: eluminata http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439280 eluminata Sun, 11 May 2008 17:10:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439280 <p>Speaking of Shades of Gray: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=LtZYvgG3ajY" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=LtZYvgG3ajY</a></p> <p>A kind of personal theme song: <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Peter+Gabriel/_/Fourteen+Black+Paintings" rel="nofollow">http://www.last.fm/music/Peter.....+Paintings</a></p> <p>Some “youthful inspiration”:<br /> <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=LS6n2lfaP-U" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=LS6n2lfaP-U</a><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFYplbiL40w&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related</a></p> <p>And something I thought Lil’ Peanut might enjoy:</p> <p><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/looneytunesgoldendvd2.html" rel="nofollow">http://movies.yahoo.com/featur.....ndvd2.html</a></p> Speaking of Shades of Gray: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LtZYvgG3ajY

A kind of personal theme song: http://www.last.fm/music/Peter…..+Paintings

Some “youthful inspiration”:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LS6n2lfaP-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

And something I thought Lil’ Peanut might enjoy:

http://movies.yahoo.com/featur…..ndvd2.html

]]> By: nonplussed http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439260 nonplussed Sun, 11 May 2008 16:53:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439260 <blockquote><p>How we could let an asshole from <strike>Texas</strike> Connecticut create so much hatred and agony is beyond the pale.</p></blockquote> <p>In the interest of technical accuracy :o)</p>

How we could let an asshole from Texas Connecticut create so much hatred and agony is beyond the pale.

In the interest of technical accuracy :o)

]]> By: MaryRacine http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439251 MaryRacine Sun, 11 May 2008 16:46:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/11/the-diplomatic-art-of-listening/#comment-1439251 <p>Just finished Rob Tom Smith’s CHILD 44, mystery/thriller set in the late Stalin-era Soviet Union. Highly recommended. It’s not only an edge of your seat suspenseful read, but also is almost a horror novel in way it depicts life in a state where the criminal justice system has been twisted to serve the neurotic, authoritarian needs of the government. </p> <p>I’ll be interested to see what the reactions to it are. It’s getting a big push as the new GORKY PARK, but it’s a very different book. It looks at the Soviet system not from an external, moralizing view, but from the vantage of what it would take to survive in a world where a neighbor’s disapproval of the smallest detail of your life could be a death sentence. Because, if the government were to admit that an accusation or confession obtained under torture was be false, then their lies might be open to scrutiny.</p> <p>One of the bad outcomes of the anti-communist hysteria in America is that sight was lost of the fact that the Soviet system was evil because it did evil things. The ideology behind it was a whole separate matter.</p> Just finished Rob Tom Smith’s CHILD 44, mystery/thriller set in the late Stalin-era Soviet Union. Highly recommended. It’s not only an edge of your seat suspenseful read, but also is almost a horror novel in way it depicts life in a state where the criminal justice system has been twisted to serve the neurotic, authoritarian needs of the government.

I’ll be interested to see what the reactions to it are. It’s getting a big push as the new GORKY PARK, but it’s a very different book. It looks at the Soviet system not from an external, moralizing view, but from the vantage of what it would take to survive in a world where a neighbor’s disapproval of the smallest detail of your life could be a death sentence. Because, if the government were to admit that an accusation or confession obtained under torture was be false, then their lies might be open to scrutiny.

One of the bad outcomes of the anti-communist hysteria in America is that sight was lost of the fact that the Soviet system was evil because it did evil things. The ideology behind it was a whole separate matter.

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