Word: lecterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mitchelson is no lectern pounder; even attorneys who have opposed him concede that he is unfailingly "pleasant and easygoing." Clients who visit him in his office are sometimes surprised to find him dressed in a bathrobe or riding britches, conducting an imaginary orchestra as a hi-fi system plays a favorite Verdi opera. He is also a Shakespeare buff who once spent an afternoon trading quotes from the Bard with Marlon Brando as the two worked out a custody settlement over Brando's child...
Despite those problems, Boumedienne left Algeria a considerable legacy of pride and hope. Though he was not exactly charismatic-his first address to the nation after the 1965 coup came from a faceless voice on television while the camera focused on an empty lectern-he did become an aggressive international leader. He was among the first of the Arabs to nationalize precious natural resources. He acquired wide respect among nonaligned nations with his 1973 call for a new economic order, more equitably sharing the riches of the industrial nations with the Third World. That world, as well as Algeria, will...
...widespread public mood. As the discussions dragged on through the night and into the next day, conditions in the overcrowded, ill-equipped palace became intolerable. Hostages who could not wait to use any of the four toilets in the palace found relief in wastebaskets behind the speaker's lectern in the Chamber of Deputies. During the first night, 300 people escaped by pushing out an air conditioner and climbing out a window. The guerrillas later released all children and most of the women. That still left more hostages than even the guerrillas seemed to have bargained...
Only by glancing around and seeing 400 persons packed in a Science Center auditorium--with about 100 more watching nearby on video tape--could you be assured that, indeed, you were in the right place. Yes, the glib man at the lectern would eventually show some important connection between hyenas and humans, a connection meant to explain not just general behavioral imperatives such as the desire to servive, but also the psychological nuances that could account for complex social institutions and hierarchies...
...personalities the movement embraces, that elegant and curmudgeonly Convert Malcolm Muggeridge will be on hand to share the lectern with the two women...