Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mithchell A. Orenstein '89, said that he told Epps before the speech that SASC did not plan to disturb the event. Orenstein said he did not think that statement was a lie because the blockade did not necessarily have to disturb the speech...
...answers to these questions lie in appreciating time-honored protest tactics by those who wish to offer alternative views. Just as Duke Kent-Brown has the right to speak, the Black Students Association has the right to heckle, even though heckling makes speaking more difficult. And when members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee blocked two of three exists to the Science Center auditorium, ideally forcing Kent-Brown to exit past demonstrators in the Science Center courtyard, they made movement difficult but by no means impossible. As long as protesters respect the peaceful limitations inherent to civil disobedience, their actions...
...spoke of his hometown, Winter asked, "Don't you know you can't go home again?" Her question struck a chord in Wolfe's dilemma. Wolfe had hoped to be the Great American Novelist, "reminding his readers of the promise of American life, of the greatness that could still lie ahead for a nation begun with an ideal of a free man's life,...fulfilling its whole purpose in an atmosphere of free and spacious enlightenment." The promise felt, the goal defined, Wolfe nonetheless was unable to realize the essence of his self-imposed task...
...imagining what the baby will look like or grow up to be. Most acutely, she fails to anticipate that onrush of inexpressible satisfaction when the baby is laid across her breast in the delivery room. For all such moments she was paid a fee, yet her reactions not only lie outside the business deal but are shadowed by that deal, as if her instincts had been hawked in the marketplace...
...friend Oral Roberts, who warned without mentioning Swaggart by name that "Satan has put something in your heart that you're better than anybody else." At a Tennessee nightclub Swaggart's cousin, Rock 'n' Roller Jerry Lee Lewis, leaped to the defense: "Jimmy Swaggart don't have to lie about nothing." After some tensions, Falwell agreed that Swaggart had "no designs...