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Word: oratorically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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So wrote the Romantic-era Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki in 1848, lines so visionary and improbable -- a Pole as Supreme Pontiff! -- that few, even in long-suffering Poland, believed they would ever come true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Paul II : Lives of the Pope | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

Ionesco's work was often likened to Samuel Beckett's. In The Chairs, for example, an old couple at a lighthouse fill a room with chairs to prepare for an orator who turns out to speak only by growling. Most of Ionesco's works were funnier than Beckett's, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Fascism, Fury, Fear and Farce | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

As an undergraduate at Harvard, Thayer achieved literary distinction in almost every way possible. In addition to being president of the Lampoon, Thayer was chosen to be the Class Day Ivy orator. And as a junior, he wrote the Hasty Pudding play.

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Lampoon President and Baseball's Greatest Poet | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

But Lorena Bobbitt is in many ways just your typical small-town multicultural manicurist, a woman whose ideas of political science are summed up in a statement she made about Venezuela, where she grew up: "I have a patriotism . . . We do have McDonald's. We do have Pizza Hut." Nor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism Confronts Bobbittry | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

"Somebody's trying to poon the `Poon," Dave said. David J. Kennedy `93, writer, orator, and effete ne'er-do-well, was standing before me in one of his tiffs. He let out a huff of indignation, mussing his debate jock/skate rat bangs. He handed me a crude flyer which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Better Dead than Head | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

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