Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down in a land storytellers speak of, A slothful tavern, legends, prayers, The feeble shade of listlessly murmuring palm trees...
Wicker, invited to speak by the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club, said the lack of emphasis on issues in the recent presidential race coverage was partly a failure of the press, but also a reflection on the nature of the political system itself...
...speak more in a generic sense rather than specifics. I hope to estab-lish, as best I can, a position where our country is the leader of the world, based not on military might or economic pressure or political persuasion but on the fact that we are right and decent; that we take a position with every nation as " best we can according to what is best for the people who live there. I strongly favor majority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa. I plan to let that be known to the world...
...Plains, in best Southern tradition, had baked up a storm. Rosalynn Carter's mother produced her choice butternut cake a day early for fear she'd be too excited on Election Day. Contractor Robert Abbett was sawing and hammering the stand on which the favorite son would speak...
...approach leads to a hermetic absorption with words as objects rather than signs pointing outward-precisely the premise that makes so much "experimental" writing so ghastly and unreadable. Gass also passes off a tautology as profundity: "I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say." This is both true and too cute by half; it nar- rows human awareness to the single focus of language, denies the very variety of living that words can celebrate...