Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a speech is cancelled, when a speaker is heckled, the press should not ignore the incident. And the ballpark incident is not a political action--the ballgame intruder isn't protesting the game, nor is he trying to convey a political message to the audience.
In his book, Speakes says that after the Soviet Union's downing of a Korean Air Lines passenger jet in 1983, he quoted Reagan as saying the incident illustrated a "Soviet versus the world problem," and not antagonism between the superpowers. Speakes' book said that comment really came from Secretary...
NINETEEN years ago, 200 student demonstrators occupied University Hall to protest ROTC recruitment on campus. Two days later, on the orders of Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, 75 state troopers armed with nightsticks stormed the building violently evicted the students and injured several. Fortunately, no one was killed. The...
That same turn-the-other-cheek liberalism, that deep reluctance to directly confront Jackson, a black man, continued to plague Michael Dukakis. The morning after the Connecticut primary, the victorious Massachusetts Governor appeared with Jackson on the Today show. Jackson immediately seized control by congratulating Dukakis, then adding dismissively, "You...
Generally audiences have reacted favorably to Schickele's less than solemn style of composition. Schickele admits that some misinformed concertgoers will "come expecting a Bach concert" and will leave "giving walking ovations." But rarely do such occassions occur. Schickele recounts only one ironic incident from a concert in Massachusetts where...