Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost 1500 students crammed into the Science Center Tuesday to hear Andrew Young defend the Carter administration and U.S. foreign policy, on closed circuit television if not in person...
...pilot himself to the next stop on his lecture circuit (aviation is one of his hobbies), Toffler, on the pretense of responding to a question, rose and delivered a deadly serious warning to the 100 or so people who had come to the Science Center to hear him speak. With perfect elocution and rising intensity, Toffler beseecned the audience to help bear the onus of making sure society survives a potentially internecine technological revolution. He admitted that his predictions of apocalypse could be wrong--if so, he said, he would not be the first prophet to miscalculate--but working...
...radicalism is a measure of sapience, then Toffler is the apotheosis of wisdom. You name it, he wants to change it--values, mores, political systems, economic organization, religion, democracy, the Constitution. Although Toffler's proposals are extreme. It is refreshing to hear a speaker who is not afraid to get up in front of an audience and to go beyond the parameters of what is commonly perceived as permissable discussion. Toffler not only asserted that a technological revolution was upon us, he advocated helping it along and shedding the shackles of the past, that is, industrial society, as quickly...
...first evening. I told my mother I was gay; when my father joined us the next day, I told him. I loved my parents, and I felt that I should tell them first of all straight people--if for no other reason, because I did not want them to hear it from someone else. I had not expected it to be easy, and I was right...
Sadat (laughing): Gentlemen, we have to start somewhere. I am ready to be honest and keep those detailed ideas to myself and not use them in future negotiations. But honestly, I would like to hear your points of view...