ellauri100.html on line 932: Listening ever, but not catching
ellauri140.html on line 224: "The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the United States Army Special Forces. It is one of the few popular songs of the Vietnam War years to cast the military in a positive light and in 1966 became a major hit, reaching No. 1 for five weeks on the Hot 100 and four weeks on Cashbox. It was also a crossover smash, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart and No. 2 on Billboard's Country survey. The original Hot 100 end-of-the-year chart for 1966 showed "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and the Papas at #1 and "Ballad of the Green Berets" at #10. Later, in a revised end-of-the-year chart for 1966, "Berets" was at #1 and "Dreamin'" was at #10 (see Billboard's #1 single for the year 1966). The two songs tied for #1 on the Cashbox end-of-the-year survey for 1966.
ellauri263.html on line 787: "Listening I think is really important, listening without judgment and without being defensive," Blue says. "Separate your stuff from your partner´s theories. Your partner´s feeling jealous, and they´ve done some work, and they´re sorting of saying ´I feel jealousy because I worry that you´re gonna leave me.´ … When you hear that, some of us feel accused as if we are doing something wrong. We´re not somehow enough, and we´ve made some sort of a mistake, and immediately we become defensive. I think if we can get into that sort of separate state and realize our partner, when they´re working through something like jealousy, is battling with their own stuff, battling with their own insecurities, or own unmet needs, [then we can be more able to] lend an ear to that to really understand what´s going on with them."
ellauri392.html on line 439: Listening to birds. Hah.
xxx/ellauri440.html on line 437: Listening to (sic) Five on Finniston Farm, I was really struck by the importance of the idea of an American trying to "buy up British history" (and one of the children comes very close to saying precisely these precise words!) and this struck me as a really interesting piece of postwar insecurity and even nationalist resentment. And does it strike anybody else that the quaint little islands, half-forgotten, always to be rediscovered, in danger of being sold and containing unimaginably rich hoards of gold (cultural heritage?!?) might actually all be fantasies and insecurities about Britain as an island nation? Enid Blyton gives us a stereotypical portrayal of Americans in Five On Finniston Farm - Junior is spoilt and his father is loud, brash and greedy. Do British people understand that if they came to America to work and
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