Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first that I would not have chosen Dr. Oppenheimer, had I been the one to make the choice. There is a clear need for the scientists, who so control our lives these days, to think and speak on a philosophical as well as a scientific level, for they may know best the awesome problems with which current philosophical thought must contend. Still, a scientist other than Oppenheimer might well have been chosen for the honor of grappling with these problems in the William James lectures...
...prominent intellectual, and that his appointment as William James lecturer could only champion those groups which excuse and abet this kind of irresponsibility. The Pound controversy and Kamin-Furry fiasco are excellent illustrations of this. I do not in any way deny Dr. Oppenheimer's right to speak. I criticize his appointment as William James lecturer...
...part of the mute boy, Toby, was written for a performer who must combine the abilities of dancer and mime. Eugene Gervasi distinguishes himself in both capacities. He quite brilliantly manages to make his body and hands express the boy's desperate eagerness to speak, and, what is perhaps more difficult, project his love for the medium's daughter...
...America's leading scholars and as a man who has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of his country. The crowd which filled Sanders Theatre to its 1500-man limit 20 minutes before the speech, gave the lecturer a full minute's ovation both as he rose to speak and after his talk was over, one hour later...
...hate me out there," she says frankly, "and I hate them." But she has less trouble than many of her male co-workers in knocking down the reserve of reticent athletes. A recent example: Toni Sailer, Austria's world champion skier. "All accounts say he can't speak English very well," she grins. "I talked with him, shot pool with him, had dinner with him. His English is all right. He's just...