Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai E. Stevenson definitely will not speak at the University or even travel through Cambridge when he comes to speak in Boston next Monday. James S. Lanigan '39, at the Washington head-quarters of the Democratic National Committee, explained yesterday that Stevenson would be busy all day preparing that evening's major campaign address, to be given in Mechanics Hall...
...well themselves, but to avoid interference where people can do things for themselves." The Federal Government should support social security and unemployment insurance, foster health research, overcome emergency schoolroom shortages, keep the dollar sound. Beyond these duties is a barrier: "The partnership policy of which we speak is to give the maximum responsibility into the hands of local and state governments to run their own affairs...
...along the hot, dusty, 140-mile drive to Serowe, the roads were lined with cheering, weeping Bamangwato, and the capital itself was thronged with tribesmen who had waited since dawn without food or water to shout their welcome. Even Seretse's own attempts to halt the cheering and speak a word of thanks were futile. "Seretse! Seretse! Seretse!" cried his former subjects, and the ex-chief could only smile back helplessly...
...parents seldom converse with them, and the children never learn how to ask questions. They have never seen a book or heard a bedtime story. They cannot write their names. Their inquisitiveness blocked almost from birth, they succumb to total passivity. By the time they reach school, they can speak only about 100 words...
Despite the difficulty it gives some of the actors, this static way of staging Major Barbara is admirable. It is admirable because Laughton was willing to accept the play for what it is, at once a sermon and exhilirating theater. The director permitted Shaw to speak, enabling the old man to vindicate himself as a comedian--because the play is often very funny--and to prove it possible to make a play out of ideas. Perhaps the highest praise this production can get is that Shaw would have approved...