Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father was embarrassed. "Son, they don't mean 'boring' like when we hear your grandfather recite the Gettysburg Address in Latin. It's just a tradition at Harvard that when the crowd particularly enjoys a half-time selection by the band they yell 'boring!' in honor of Leonard Boring, the first director of the Harvard Band...
Even before Carter's address to Congress, events in Israel highlighted some of the unresolved issues in the agreement...
...last week the election balloon that had seemed to be nearing takeoff in Britain for most of the summer ran flat out of hot air. In a move that stunned pundits and outraged political opponents, the Prime Minister announced in a four-minute televised address to his countrymen that his minority Labor government would not call for a general election next month, as nearly everyone thought it would. Declared Callaghan: "The government must and will continue to carry out policies which are consistent and determined, which do not chop and change ..." In practical terms, that almost certainly postponed Britain...
...seemed that many did not even want to hear--not just at Harvard but across the country. For weeks after the address--especially in the Midwestern heartland where indignant, patriotic feathers are most easily ruffled--the editorial pages of the big-city dailies and small-town weeklies alike over-flowed with letters. Most supported Rosalynn Carter's response to the Solzhenitsyn speech, an earnest argument on the evening news that America is still strong and wholesome as ever...
...inaugural address to the Cardinals last week, John Paul pledged to carry forward the work of the Second Vatican Council, convened by Pope John XXIII in 1962 and concluded by Paul in 1965. He would, he said, put a "priority" on the ongoing revision of the canon law codes. Last year, however, the then Cardinal Luciani commented of this project: "With Montesquieu, we must say, 'The laws need to be touched with trembling hands...