Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some audience members said they were impressed by the speaker's comments...
...luncheon's final speaker, who brought this image to bear on the sated crowd at Legend's restaurant, evoked the tournament's 45-year tradition. At the end of the luncheon, as it was at the beginning of the Beanpot, the priority was the game, the tournament determinative of Boston hockey bragging rights...
...objectivist speaker barraged the ear with one generality after another to the great cheer and awe of the crowd. Some classic examples of his profound wisdom: "A is A," "Existence exists," "Freedom is the right for man to think" and--my favorite--"The good man lives, thinks, produces and respects others." He highlighted his otherwise vacuous talk with some select quotes from Rand's fiction and tossed in a few textbook points from Kant and Aquinas to make it all seem more legitimate, i.e. academic. Of course, the audience members, waving their well-thumbed copies of The Fountainhead, furiously shook...
...regard to L'Affaire Newt, I would say, "Mr. Speaker, people who work in crass Houses shouldn't throw stones." CHARLES J. HUEBNER Harbor Springs, Michigan...
...Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House...