Word: eddison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Effective political speeches seduce listeners, Martha Eddison '86, the head speechwriter for former New York governor Mario Cuomo, told an audience of 60 at an Institute of Politics discussion yesterday...
...Political speeches are basically a seduction, and what we really want is to be seduced, to be swept off our feet," Eddison said. "Secretly we all want to fall in love...
...Eddison, who lives in Cambridge, said effective political speakers charm their listeners, gain their trust, make them feel better about themselves and ask something of them...
...Eddison discussed her personal experiences working with Cuomo, whom she said tended to rewrite "almost everything...