Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Marvin Chomsky (Roots; Holocaust; My Body, My Child) has usually been willing to sacrifice pace for performance. This time the tempo of fascism has given his film a compelling rhythm, and a company of distinguished actors has lent it an elegant tone. Gielgud is haughtily endearing, a stiff-collared...
By that time, the intense, attractive scholar had fled the country. She left behind a series of frayed but unsevered connections: with Heidegger and with Germany. In Paris, and later in New York, she and her husband, Heinrich Blücher, lived as stateless persons, their brilliance appreciated only by...
Campaigning in the provincial town of Zacatecoluca last week, Duarte was doing his best to drum up enthusiasm for the election. Although he may well be the country's best political orator, he was guarded and defensive as he tried to explain why the junta had not brought either peace...
In the early spring of 1823, Woodbury attempted to obtain the position of Latin orator at commencement--a role he knew that Robinson was likely to win. With this in mind, he went with his friend and co-"Black", Steams, before the College Government. They claimed that Robinson was the...
Though several of his heroes, like Thompson, the Hyde Park orator, lived in poverty, Foot avoids the common error of identifying poverty as a virtue. Those leaders who surmounted poverty, or better yet, reached great political or cultural heights while enveloped in it, are to be admired; but to Foot...