Word: havelent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once the degrees have been granted, Rudenstine and Czech President Vaclav Havel Will deliver addressesat the afternoon ceremony which starts at 2:15p.m...
...University will confer honorary degrees today on 10 people, including Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Who will deliver the Commencement address, architect I.M. Pei, Painter Jacob Lawrence and former University Chicago President Hanna H. Gray...
...your welldeserved retirement, your successors will get tired of us and throw us a sop. That would be nice. Did we mention that we're going to poster at Commencement, too? Maybe we can get balloons with House shields on them and scare Vaclev Havel away. The pink balloons really seemed to disconcert Colin Powell...
Later in 1990, Havel effectively broke the international isolation of Austrian Nazi-cum-President Kurt Waldheim by visiting him in Salzburg. Havel did castigate the still-dissembling Waldheim by telling him, "Lying can never save us from the lie." Yet the Czech leader's visit unjustifiably dignified Waldheim...
...Perhaps Havel will enlighten us as to his past actions. But more significantly, we await the address of the statesperson and linguistic enthusiast who wrote: "Words that electrify society with their freedom and truthfulness are matched by words that mesmerize, deceive, inflame, madden; words that are harmful, even lethal. The word as arrow." What words...