Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus all their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exercise stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
...independent center parties to try to form a government. In the less likely event of a severe loss at the polls by his party, Charles De Gaulle would most probably interpret the results as a repudiation of his rule and step down from the presidency. "The people must speak," De Gaulle told his Ministers, adding pointedly: "We must draw the consequences...
...battle right here at Cambridge-on-the-Charles. All the arrangements were made amidst great excitement and relative secrecy. What stopped the warriors from their brave encounter? They were refused permission from University Hall. The apocryphal answer they were given, the word from on high, stopping them, not to speak of their elephants dead in their tracks...
...Malley will be directly responsible to a 27-man executive board, which the convention authorized to act and speak for the membership at large on questions of national importance. To guide the leadership's thinking, the federation also organized a Social Action Committee, which was directed to draw up position papers on such issues as poverty, the morality of public demonstrations, conscientious objection and the recruitment of Negro priests (of whom there were none at the convention). Other groups will examine the feasibility of popular election of bishops, the liberalization of canon law and, of course, celibacy...
Translators of poetry are the John Aldens of literature. They may woo the reader in another's name but, ultimately, they must speak for themselves-with translations that stand up in their own right as good poetry. "A translation must live," wrote Edward FitzGerald, "with a transfusion of one's own worse life if he can't retain the original's better. Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle...