Word: oratorically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The class grew. It was moved to Emerson Hall. Still, the gigantic crowd proved uncontainable. Finally, Hankins was forced into Sanders Theatre. When a course reaches the Sanders threshold, there is no turning back. "It's a horrible place to teach in. It's a barn. I'm not an...
...discussed patriotism, and at one point almost began to cry. He talked about the "human element" in the case against Bill Clinton, and that was what Bumpers himself brought to the Senate floor. Though few of his legal arguments broke new ground in this trial, his persona hit oratorical and emotional pay dirt -- here was an impassioned defender of Bill Clinton that this jury could trust. And be impressed by. "Some of you hate Bill Clinton," Bumpers intoned. "Rise above it... Don't leave a precedent from which we will never recover, and which we will surely regret." In this...
In a small auditorium known as Convocation House, a hundred or so watched as the Public Orator, a professor named Jasper Griffin, gave Latin speeches, praising first Levin and then Rudenstine.
By the time Winfrey was a teenager, her gift as an orator and dramatist had won her considerable popularity at both church and school, and she often recited moving depictions of slave life. She began using the iron-willed protagonists she found in black literature to fire her dreams of...
This did not stop every armchair orator from writing the speech last week: I'm sorry I lied. I was protecting the privacy of my wife and daughter in an area in which people always keep things private. I didn't think I should be answering these questions in the...