Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In a nation known for its fiery orators, Virgilio Barco Vargas is a notable exception. While campaigning for President, Barco plodded through speeches with all the verve of an engineer explaining a blueprint. Supporters of the 64-year-old liberal were reduced to saying, "Virgilio may be a bad candidate...
Harvard Orator Rosen plans to speak on thelegacy of the Puritans. "The speech talks aboutthe Puritan legacy and how the students of the1980s are trying to cope with the burden of the1960s," said Rosen, who will deliver a modifiedversion of the speech at the 350th celebrationthis fall.
Lady Jane, her first film, is no formula flick, but an ambitious costume melodrama about the violent period after the deaths of Henry VIII (in 1547) and, six years later, his sickly young son Edward VI. Nevertheless--castles, moats, 16th century costumes and all--the film sinks at its worst...
The most unlikely Republican candidate is Cleaver, 50, the former Black Panther leader whose campaign office is decorated with his convict photo and old Panther posters. His hair is graying, and he now wears fraying business suits in place of the outrageous codpiece he sported in the '70s. But Cleaver...
Shapiro, the Latin Orator, will tell what he described as a "far-fetched story about the John Harvard statue coming to life for its 350th birthday and delivering an oration from the top of Widener about the right uses of a college education."