Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shop Steward of the Radcliffe Dining Halls, comes out of self-imposed retirement to release his autobiography, entitled Pimento. It is co-authored by Lillian Hellman, who claims that "like me, Sherman was the victim of a witch-hunt." Holcombe shakes up the press conference by telling Hellman to "speak for yourself...
...friendship with God changed me a great deal. Only in defense of a just cause would I take up arms, so to speak. For now I felt I had stepped into a vaster and more beautiful world and my capacity for endurance redoubled. I felt I could stand the pressure whatever the magnitude of a given problem. My paramount object was to make people happy. To see a smile, to feel that another man's heart beat for joy was to me a source of immeasurable happiness. I identified with people's joys...
...part of town found a few things to quarrel over in the Carter record. Yet when Jerry flew off to Vail for the holidays, he complimented Carter on his graciousness and explained that political differences did not intrude in their "friendly relationship." Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower did not speak for more than eight years; Richard Nixon and John Kennedy spoke only when they...
Play opens on three faces, those of a man and two women, protruding from three giant urns. All speak at once, and none of them knows that the other two are there. Then a spotlight, often the most important actor in a Beckett drama, shines on each in turn, leaving the others in darkness. The spotlight is both narrator and inquisitor, forcing each of the three to tell his or her side of the same sordid story of betrayed love and adultery. Released from their urns and the grip of the spotlight, the three faces-of husband, wife and mistress...
...Jimmy Carter, whispered the first caller. Ring, ring. Another voice. Sorry, it was all off. The President was dropping Burns as chairman. The negative word from the White House would soon be public. Jangle, jangle. New rumor running through the city. In just a few minutes Carter would speak in the Mayflower Hotel to the Business Council, a group of high-powered corporate chiefs, and drop his bombshell: Burns would have another four-year term as Fed chairman. Carter indeed met with the council, but he never mentioned Burns...