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Chosen class orator for alumni day 1950, Buckley submitted a speech rebuking the university for its aimless liberalism and lack of a sense of mission. It was turned down by a shocked administration. "They all figured I was a bright, facile guy who just didn't understand," says Buckley...
Acid & Acrimony. The demonstration began under a crystalline noonday sky at the Lincoln Memorial. It took on special impact by climaxing a week of antiwar protest across the nation. Beneath the marbled gaze of Lincoln's statue, red and blue Viet Cong flags mingled with signs affirming that "Che...
A brilliant orator and military strategist, as well as an outstanding literary critic, Trotsky was out-foxed and out-maneuvered by Joseph Stalin in the leadership struggle which followed Lenin's death in 1924. By 1929, after five years of setbacks and humiliation, he was banished forever from Russia.
Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D., U.S. Senator, Illinois. Peerless orator, gifted political leader, American statesman.
A student orator at Commencement exercises this morning threw aside tradition and told his own story -- how he fough his way out of a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn and a series of odd jobs into Harvard Law School.