Word: oratoric
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Television's habit of cutting away at will from the podium began, with far more justification, in the days when conventions were a gaudy and contentious rite where delegates really debated and decided. Television boasted of the civic responsibility of its gavel-to-gavel coverage, but even then it...
The networks are spending about $15 million apiece on their 1984 convention coverage and feeling abused. Though the Republicans and Democrats all but turn over their halls to television, the political parties do try to deny it one wish: television wants controversy; the parties aim for tranquillity. You can expect...
AN ECCENTRIC woman of Brahmin origins, Olive has elevated suffragism to the level of a personal cult. Olive and Basil become enthralled by Verena, an earnest, sweet-looking, if not quite articulate enough character to make plausible her subsequent fame as an orator.
The principal founder of the movement that ultimately brought Ferraro to the Democratic ticket must have experienced a similar moment one day back in 1840. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 24, newly married to an Abolitionist Orator named Henry Brewster Stanton, had accompanied him to London, where he was to be a...
As an orator, Woodhull bowed to no man. "We mean treason; we mean secession..." she declared. "We are plotting revolution; we will [overthrow] this bogus Republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead." When someone dared to ask whether she practiced her preachings of free love, she defiantly...