Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following is a draft of the oration delivered in Sanders Theatre on Class Day, June 12, 1968. Henry Norr, Class Orator, made his remarks immediately preceding a speech by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, whom the Class of 1968 invited to speak in replacement of her husband...
...Basque language [Sept. 6] has intrigued me ever since I heard of Maurice Ravel's pride in his ability to speak this mysterious tongue. But there now exists a work which offers an explanation of its origin that is as intriguing as the former mystery: Dravidian Origins and the West, by N. Lahovary. The author offers phonetic, lexical and morphological evidence for close links between the Basque language and Dravidian, an Indian language. He concludes that these languages are members of an ancient pre-Hamito-Semitic family whose single origin and single center of diffusion is the Near East...
Wallace does not, of course, openly espouse racism, preferring to talk about law and order and let his listeners supply their own villains. Last week he complained that both the Democrats and the Republicans were trying to swipe the issue from him. "I was the first one to speak out on law and order, about a year and a half ago," he said. "Now they usin' our phrase." That is regrettably true, but Wallace can console himself with the knowledge that no one else has ridden the issue with quite the cowboy abandon that...
...blacks against an overwhelming white force. Yet they cry for an ultimate bloody upheaval at some future time when blacks will have a tactical advantage. A heavy majority of Negroes reject this sort of thing as ridiculous mumbo jumbo. But many moderates are too intimidated by the Panthers to speak out, and quite a few like the way they stand up to white authority and foster black pride. But unless the white community reaches out in a more meaningful spirit of brotherhood, desperate and embittered young Negroes will continue to answer the Panthers' call...
...Umberto, ex-King of Italy; Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...