Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nicholas Panuzio, 41, Commissioner of Public Buildings for the General Services Administration, saw the need for "an atmosphere in which people are willing to speak out. I don't mean that we ought to have New England town meetings, but informal ways in which all sides can get their views...
JOSEPH MATTINA, New York state supreme court justice: I grew up in an Italian neighborhood and my father was a shoemaker. My parents were born in Sicily and they could not speak English so I went to school speaking Italian. I flunked kindergarten-the only thing I flunked in my academic career. It was something that stuck in my mind. When I went to high school, suddenly the separateness was very apparent. There were not too many Italians. You could not get into the clubs or the fraternities. There was an Irish Catholic church, and there was a certain amount...
...videotaping a presentation he made at the Deer Island Prison in Boston. His extensive education has given him the respect he feels is necessary for his work as a storyteller. "Especially because I'm black, I had to earn some respect for what I was doing. Now I can speak their language, whatever technical terms they ask for." He feels an obligation "to make the translation to the street, to all the forgotten people....the ones who just turn off when they see someone come along in religious clothing...
...only describe ways to escape him, or at best fight with his own weapons, the profit motive and buying power. The book describes the methods that have been used by preservationists (documentation, recognition as a "historic landmark," zoning laws, real-estate clauses). But this time the catalog does not speak to the Dodgers fan, only to the philanthropic patron of the arts--because, as the authors admit, "the only way to save or rejuvenate old buildings is money." They recognize that "built into the current economic system are a number of disincentives to preservation...the tax structure tends to favor...
Bloomfield's task is to create a king of mirror effect through which, for example, the town-bred Gwendolen and countrified Cecily seem merely of vanity and triviality. These are not, after all, three-dimensional characters; they are instead cardboard figures, albeit unusually witty ones, whose motto is "I speak, therefore...