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Listening as the neglected link in human communication
Dr. Donald E. Bird urged more attentive and critical listening, citing remarks by Swift and Tocqueville on conversation. He notes the common failing of listening as forbearance and argues that listening remains a valuable, uncrowded field worth practicing in 1956 progress.
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Donald E. Bird
Stephens College
National Society For the Study of Communications
Dean Swift
Alexis de Tocqueville
United States
M. de Tocqueville
Oliver Goldsmith
Willy
Cibber
Sam Johnson
Johnson