Word: oratore
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Even seated at his littered desk in Canberra's Parliament House, he always seemed bigger than life. His great black eyebrows clumped out angrily, like saltbush in the Great Sandy Desert, and his vast stomach bulged defiance against his double-breasted suit. He was quarrelsome, autocratic, always demanding, and...
(8 of 11) 13 children, he delights in kissing babies, is a stem-winding orator who always comes out strong on the side of social reform. - Fernando Maria Castiella, 58, Foreign Minister. Tall and scholarly, Castiella is a progressive Catholic and perhaps the Cabinet's most consistent defender of...
Cowboys & Indians. Returning to Harvard as a professor, Schlesinger proved to his own satisfaction that he would never be an inspirational orator. But students came to his lectures to hear what he had to say, not how he said it, and they came in greater numbers than to any other...
...song consisted of the familiar demand for national elections, which, by way of a compromise, he hinted he was willing to delay until Christmas. Elections are still an unacceptable alternative to the young King, whose very crown might well depend on the success or failure of the kind of oratorical spells that Papandreou could cast over voters in a campaign...
Danish Import. Yet Papandreou was still an orator without peer in the land of Demosthenes. And in choosing to attack the monarchy he had a vital issue, for the Greeks have often resented, and sometimes even exiled, a royal family that was originally (in 1863) imported from Denmark.