Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another politician off the Plains, William Jennings Bryan, a man who could make Bill Clinton come off as laconic, remained so closely associated with Nebraska that he was sometimes known as "the boy orator of the Platte." (The Smoky Hill River does run through Russell County, Kansas, but Dole has...
The Senator claims to have composed the book in longhand, drawing upon journals he kept for years. Aside from a sprightly epigram or three, which read as if they were recycled from speeches, he is scarcely more convincing as a writer than as an orator. Time Present, Time Past is...
Bill Bradley's new memoir (Knopf; 442 pages; $26), could be a prologue to a presidential run. The book has an impressive first printing (100,000 copies), and the author is committed to a 20-city publicity tour. Nonetheless, says Bradley, "what I'm doing is not about candidacy. The...
Speeches ranged from a farewell address by outgoing Dean of the college L. Fred Jewett '57 to a humorours s address by Ivy Orator Eric H. Baker '95 entitled "Luke Goes to Harvard: A Jedi in Cambridge.
Harvard Orator Clark H. Dean '95 recalled his first-year at Harvard, when Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles welcomed the class because President Neil L. Rudenstine was not yet Officially in office.