Word: oratorical
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The youngest member of the clerical vanguard is the Rev. Allan Boesak, 38, who achieved prominence in 1982, when he was elected president of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which has 50 million members. The following year Boesak helped establish the United Democratic Front to protest the...
The synthesis of MacDonald and Baldwin, the stabilization of His Majesty's Government as a "National Government" for the years 1931-35, came dramatically on Aug. 22, 1931 when King George, who was in Scotland, learned that Prime Minister MacDonald, then heading a Labor Cabinet, was being forced into...
If he does, it will be done by example only. Reid is not an orator or a crusader. In our conversation, he was artfully vague about his legislative plans and reluctant to offer prescriptions for resuscitating the party other than the mild suggestion that Democrats should pay more attention to...
If he does, it will be done by example only. Reid is not an orator or a crusader. In our conversation, he was artfully vague about his legislative plans and reluctant to offer prescriptions for resuscitating the party other than the mild suggestion that Democrats should pay more attention to...
Bob Brown today is a very different man. Almost three decades after entering politics and eight years as a federal senator, the leader of the Australian Greens believes his party's time is coming. After doubling their vote share to nearly 5% at the 2001 federal poll, and with the...