Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cruel irony it is indeed that in one of the most populist-minded states of the Union, a form of government akin to that of absolute monarchy has prevailed in its capital. James Madison, writing in the Federalist of 1787, warned of the dangers facing all large legislative assemblies, noting...
Although Wajda denies making Danton in response to the events in Poland, it is impossible to forget his political background and decline to read between the frames. When Danton declaims. "Without bread there is no justice, peace or law," or when he tells Robespierre. "Come back to earth I have...
Revolutionaries fall into two main types: the romantic and the quasi-religious zealot. Danton, as envisioned by Wajda and Writer Jean-Claude Carrière (Buñuel's sometime collaborator) and brilliantly portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, is the former. Lazy, sensual and, above all, egocentric, he...
In a speech aimed at Radcliffe students, Radcliffe Orator Kathleen I Kouril '83 cautioned her classmates against placing too great a value on success, or at least the success defined by men's standards. Today's Radcliffe graduates, she said, should not be concerned" not with how to make it...
A legend among prisoners in the Gulag, Kaminskaya was said to have the eloquence to move the most stonyhearted judge to render a merciful decision. Her scrupulous and exhaustive presentations earned praise even from Communist Party-controlled jurists at the top of her profession. In an official 1959 book entitled...