Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Efforts to project an image of party unity were not fully successful. Wile speakers proclaimed solidarity from the podium, signs and chants on the floor demanded that former Calif. Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. be allowed to address the convention. Runner-up Brown has yet to endorse the presumptive nominee, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton...
Naturally, undergraduates eager to learn from the best and the brightest regularly pack the largest auditoriums for faculty luminaries courses. But the edge of the podium is the closest some of these professors ever get to undergraduates. And from the student's vantage point--the back of a crowded lecture hall--Harvard's biggest personalities tend to look pretty small...
...invite whomever they want, including people with non-mainstream and even racist views of history. When Conrad Muhammad was invited, for example, The Crimson did not object. Our gripe with the Jeffries invitation was founded on the belief that no organization should honor a violent criminal with a Harvard podium. In short, Jeffries should have appeared in a court in February, not in Sanders...
...private person. The 45 years of her life have woven seamlessly into a single fabric. Her long battle as a woman to find an identity and equality is the same as the struggle for Palestinian identity and equality. She sounds the same at home as she does on a podium: there is no difference between the parent talking to her child, the spokeswoman jousting with the press, the Palestinian arguing for the cause. She has a rare ability to translate her people's longings into homely domestic terms, to turn an abstract dissertation on rights into a mother's plea...
Toward the end of yesterday's lecture, several members of the audience snapped photographs of Rawls. Students broke into hearty applause as he stepped back from the podium...