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...roughhewn give-and-take of language. But it can turn strident and ultimately sinister. The shriek from the floor can become a different medium altogether. It turns into street theater. Anarchy crashes the hall, like a motorcycle leaping through the window and blasting down the aisle toward the podium. The sound is an anti-language, a gust of obliterating noise from below that is designed precisely to subvert the process whereby words arrive as ideas at their destination in people's brains...
...Doctrine of Overriding Outrage also rests on the submerged premise that since the established power owns the microphone and podium, the process of so-called free speech is part of the problem, not the solution. The heckling zealot wishes to reroute the entire discussion: hijack the issue and force it to a wilder jurisdiction. Hecklers take ideas hostage...
...composing prodigy-dubbed Igor II, he was expected to follow in Stravinsky's footsteps-but in 1930 picked up the baton and became best known as a master of conducting precision; after a heart attack; in Antibes, France. Markevitch advocated the use of standardized gestures on the podium, saying, "Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. Certain movements produce certain sounds...
Before Ellsberg's introduction, a member of the Spartacus Youth League took the podium to complain that Harvard University Police had told them to stop handing out leaflets calling for an end to Marine recruiting on campus...
Wearing his customary checkered kaffiyeh, Yasser Arafat rose to the podium as the 355 delegates and 4,000 invited guests cheered with rhythmic applause. Predictably, he assailed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer and vowed that the Palestine Liberation Organization would fight on until "the Palestinian flag is hoisted atop the mosques and churches of Jerusalem." The rousing opening speech by the P.L.O. chairman brought a standing ovation at the Palestine National Council's meeting in Algiers last week. Sitting in the front row during later sessions, Arafat ebulliently hugged and kissed a long parade of well-wishers...