Word: colloquy
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...other side of the Channel, Britain's entry is eagerly awaited by the dedicated prounionists of Brussels, since it will add a balancing third voice to what is all too often a French-German colloquy. The British will also bring fresh enthusiasm to the councils of Europe, and the spirit of parliamentary debate may raise the present level of intramural bickering in the Common Market's governing bodies...
...John H. Westerhoff III, editor of Colloquy, a religious education magazine, will be the Lentz Lecturer on Education in the church...
...does not help at all that in Jack Larson's libretto, Byron is given some of his own best lines. "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies," is turned from soliloquy into colloquy, as the operatic Byron croons to one of his lady loves, "You walk in beauty," etc. Chuckles even broke out in the audience when Byron's friend, Thomas Moore, stepped to the stage apron to sing, "Remember that genius that gleamed in his verse." The tune turned out to be that for Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young...
...over the same weekend that the uprising occurred, a muttering mob began to congregate on the athletic field Monday morning. At least 150 black men and women had assembled by the time Colonel McKean arrived with two carloads of brass, as requested by the blacks. It was a doomed colloquy. A white race-relations officer and a black major were both shouted down. When Beverly Bradford, a white reporter for the Anniston Star, was discovered in the midst of the WACs, she was subjected to some unladylike pummeling. "It was wild," says Colonel Richard Hines, the deputy post commander...
...colloquy with a student at the press conference, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.) said he believed change could be brought about by governmental action. You can affect people's lives," Kennedy said. He cited civil rights, hunger programs and legal aid for the poor as examples of such governmental action...