Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subterranean. In her simple sheath or plain skirt and white broadcloth shirtwaist, Mick affects the saucy style of a French street urchin-the impertinent type Parisians call un titi. Juliette, in her clinging, floor-length black, displays the kind of world-weariness that once moved Jean Cocteau to speak of "the 'ruinous jewel of her heart." Both Mick and Juliette, intense admirers insist, do not merely sing-they have something...
Meanwhile, back at the agency that produced the ad. Adman Howard Becker modestly disclaimed any special talent for creating the likeness of a radio pundit. Said he: "It's simple, really. If you speak in a portentous voice, write copy in short, terse style, make everything sound important, you sound like Murrow-no matter...
...sponsored concerts, and offered a number of exciting war heroes and stimulating politicians as speakers. Prizes were offered for the best billiard player, pool player, and "that freshman member who at midyears, has achieved highest standing in studies and activities." Democratic Presidential Candidate James M. Cox stopped by to speak on his "whirlwind tour of New England" in 1920. The Union's University overseers had to stamp down student requests for Socialists Debs and Nearing, when a similar group at Dartmouth had invited a pair to speak...
Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont will speak on "Foreign Policy and Finances" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Geographical Institute. The meeting, sponsored by the Harvard Eisenhower Club, will be free and open to the public...
Word of Advice. A team of five English-speaking students of Barth promptly rallied to defend their master. His silence during the Soviet suppression of Hungary, they said, was to avoid pouring fuel on the blaze of "crusading fervor" that flared up in Switzerland at the time. And why, they ask, should Barth have "to speak to every significant event"? They deny that Barth rejects all political principle-pointing out that he told the Hungarians it was not permissible to join the Communist Party merely to keep...