Word: speakes
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...classes don't fill your hunger for hearing smart people talk this week, you need hardly worry. The list of lecturing luminaries appearing this week in the Boston area is impressive. I don't know what Barry Commoner will speak on this Sunday at the Alumni Auditorium, 360 Huntington Ave. at Northeastern. But Commoner's areas of expertise are so broad that he can't help but offer some wisdom. Commoner's primary field seems to be energy and the environment. He's studied the effects of things like energy price rises, agricultural shortages, and production technology in general...
Betty Friedan is another of this week's stars. She'll speak on October 13 at Austin Hall in the Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School at 8 p.m. (Admission: $2) Friedan is probably best known as the author of "The Feminine Mystique" and the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women...
...also. Ebert, who retired as dean of Harvard Medical School last summer, is now spending time researching medical education. Among his accolades is the founding of the Harvard Community Health Plan, a comprehensive health care delivery program that currently serves 60,000 subscribers in the Boston area. Ebert will speak on "The Doctor" at the Cambridge Forum, 3 Church St., Wednesday...
...Frank Kermode, this year's Norton Lecturer, said yesterday he will speak on problems in the interpretation of literature during the six lecture series, which will begin November...
Hills defended the role of special interest groups in government, saying, "Our government is a gathering of special interests, and if people with special interests don't speak up, who will...