Word: podiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisp evening last week, Amy Carter stepped up to a podium on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, and pressed the button controlling the lights on a 30-ft. blue spruce and 50 smaller trees around it, one for each state. But for the first time since Calvin Coolidge began the tradition in 1923, the big tree did not burst into light. Only the white star on its top and the tiny blue bulbs on the smaller trees blinked on. "Amy has lit 50 trees-one for each American hostage," explained President Carter to the 7,500 surprised...
...smooth out his jumbled syntax, Kennedy's staff has put together thick black briefing binders filled with direct, simple answers to questions that may arise. "I feel more comfortable on the podium now," says Kennedy and indeed he sometimes strikes a certain rhythm in his basic stump speech that can rouse an audience. "What we have now is not a malaise among the American people, but a malaise in the highest levels of leadership," he booms, slashing the air with one hand and flipping large note cards with the other. "A can't-do President...
...Iranian students delayed the lecture for hours. There was a bomb threat. The Americans were scared. The Iranians said Berahini was a CIA agent. Yet he was an anti-Shah poet--he spent years in jail. So finally, Chomsky let one of the students speak at the podium, and the student waxes hot-faced and apologizes to the crowd for the disturbance. He says he is sorry for what he has to say, and he reads a poem by Berahini which has the words "shit" and "fuck" in it. He says he's sorry to say such words...
Ronald Reagan had downplayed the affair as "meaningless," and waited until 40 minutes before the prevoting speeches before sweeping into town at the head of an enormous press entourage. He approached the podium behind Rosie O'Grady's Good-Time Jazz Band, and the cheering lasted for six minutes. Reagan needed only ten minutes for his speech attacking Big Government and urging a tough foreign policy...
Gardner, who has written more than a dozen books, follows such luminaries as e.e. cumminings and T.S. Eliot to the Norton podium. Frank Kermode delivered last year's series...