Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Library of Congress, he observes, "I suppose, more than most poets of my generation, I've written public poems and direct communications." These include "Speech for the Repeal of the McCarran Act" (1956), an oblique critique of U.S. immigration law, and "For the Student Strikers" (1970), a cadenced plea for moderation during a time of trouble at Wesleyan University. Still, Wilbur likes to be provoked into poetry on his own. "I received a letter from a professor recently saying, 'Oh, come on, why don't you write us a good patriotic poem?' But I don't write poems on order...
...this time, though, it is too late to cop a simple, honesty-is-the-best- pol icy plea for the work. Those who wholeheartedly agree with the author's self-review will have long since slipped out of the auditorium muttering to themselves. For those still glued to their chairs, a corollary to an old adage will probably have occurred: if it is still true that the only life worth living is the examined one, it may be that in 20th century America the only life worth examining is the headlong one. Incaution on the scale that Kazan has practiced...
...shooting of Martin Luther King, 19 days after Bobby plunged into the 1968 campaign, accelerated his transformation. The war, Kennedy's ostensible reason for getting into the race, gave way to a near desperate plea for an end to racial hatred and intractable poverty. In speeches scribbled on note pads in the days after King's death, Kennedy made some of his most eloquent appeals. "For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly," he declared. "The violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors...
...former Kirkland House resident, who came to the Ivy League from the barrio of La Habra near Los Angeles, has entered a plea of not guilty, according to his attorney, Assistant Public Defender Jim Egar...
...showdown came at an emergency stockholders meeting demanded by De Benedetti and his allies, where more than 1,000 shareholders crowded into a carnival tent set up behind Societe Generale's elegant offices in Brussels. Despite a last-minute plea by De Benedetti, in which he argued that the 166- year-old conglomerate, best known as La Generale, needed better management, he was rebuffed...