Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Buckley chaired the Yale debate team 30 years ago, he always won. But in his last round in 1950, the orator lost to Harvard after The Crimson coached the Harvard team by providing it with Crimson files. The subject: academic freedom.
For months he had been presenting himself as the lonely independent, the thinking man's candidate, voicing unorthodox ideas that defy easy liberal-conservative classification. Last week John Bayard Anderson, 58, pushed his political heresy to the extreme by taking on the two-party system itself. His thick shock...
WITH THE POISE EXPECTED of a fine actor, the performer recites his final line and exits, stage right, to the thunderous applause of his audience. Only there is no curtain, just a podium on a platform, and the orator heads not backstage to be received by an admiring fan, but...
Could it have been different? Connally was far and away the best orator on the Republican circuit. His experience as Texas Governor, Treasury Secretary and Navy Secretary was unmatched by any of his rivals. But voters rejected him personally. Inside the G.O.P., Connally was too well remembered as an associate...
But he smiled, too, when the profile focused on his born-again Christianity and slow conversion to liberalism, bolstering his image as an orator, letting him play the part of the "thinking candidate."