Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Harvard students don't care about about pressing social problems. It is that most refuse to ask Harvard to address them...
Referring to the commencement address, Gould said yesterday, "I'll start thinking about it two or three days before, that's the way good speeches are made. You speak about what you are most passionately interested in at the moment...
...student and alumni divestment movement--in moving from mass protests and the erection of shanties in 1984 and 1985 to the alternative slate of pro-divestment overseers candidates nominated by petition for the past four years--has demonstrated a willingness to continually address the success of its tactics. There is no standard set of tactics that is right for every movement or for every point in history. Without an overwhelmingly polarizing issue such as Vietnam to unite behind, there is no easy formula for increasing political activity. The point is to keep trying...
...wide-ranging address before 125 people on the political status of the gay rights movement, Frank, one of the nation's two openly gay members of Congress, said that recent federal legislation has prevented AIDS from being used as the basis for discrimination against gays...
...amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before the final triumph, the elder Babbit went off to do political battle...