Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, Habib has a distinctive personal touch that helped move the talks along. Dealing with the loquacious Menachem Begin, Habib would let him run on a while, then interrupt him with a blunt deflator: "Prime Minister, what you're really saying is this . . ." Habib had a different style from Henry Kissinger, whom he assisted during the Middle East shuttles in 1974 that led to the disengagement agreements made by Israel with both Egypt and Syria. "Kissinger," says one Israeli official, "was more of a preacher. He'd lecture us. Habib takes pains to avoid that...
...regarded as the real problems facing the world now. I just couldn't get over thinking of what I was listening to, and then he would stop and say, 'You see that knoll over there? That's where I did this-or-that.' He would interrupt himself, you know. And we just sat there and looked...
There are only a few things that have been able to interrupt of otherwise disrupt a Harvard Commencement. But the one time in recent years when stormy weather did force the ceremonies inside Sanders Theater where they were held from 1876 through 1915--there were more things for University officials to worry about than an early June downpour. The year was 1968, and it was, Anderson says, "the start of student dissent," when Harvard students protested the appearance of Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, whose speech was interrupted several times in an overcrowded Sanders...
...group of protestors, led by Saundra Graham, now a Cambridge City Councilor, seized the stage to interrupt the first joint Harvard-Radcliffe commencement and voice their discontent over Harvard's housing policies. Anderson recalls that he turned off the microphones as soon as he realized what was happening, but it took an off-state negotiating session to continue on schedule Anderson adds that on that "unpleasant and uncivilized day." President Nathan M. Pusey '28 was forced to abridge one portion of the Commencement, granting all of the University's degrees with, a single presentation, rather than by school...
...Boys are amiable, even cozy. It is a rainy late afternoon, and two blacks are tidying up the St. Georges Park Tea Room, a modest luncheonette. The elder and brighter, Sam (Zakes Mokae), putters about while Willie (Danny Glover), a simpler soul, mops the floor. The two interrupt their labors from time to time to polish up fox-trot and waltz steps for a much anticipated dance contest...