Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news: "Early on we reported rather softly on the Shah; we thought he was our man." A telling indictment in the Columbia Review is that in an eleven-month study the authors could find no use of the word dictator to describe the Shah. Though the press did speak of torture and a repressive secret police, it usually labeled the regime as autocratic or authoritarian...
Carl F. Rosen '80, a member of the undergraduate group that elected Fouquet last year and voted to boycott the ACSR this year, said yesterday that the ACSR "is so far from reality they can't speak for the Harvard community. The report highlights the need for reforms of the ACSR...
...speak, for example, of the Middle East, the interests of detente are in no way contradicted by the struggle of the Arab peoples for the return of lands which belong to them but have been seized by Israel and for the right of the Palestinians to set up a state of their own, or by the actions of those who support these legitimate demands of the Arabs. It is those who support the aggressor, encouraging the expansionist cravings, that are acting contrary to the interests of detente in the Middle East...
Faceless men in black robes, judges speak a tongue that laymen find baffling. They are beholden only to higher judges, which means the Supreme Court is beholden to no one at all. Said blunt-spoken New Yorker Robert Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice in the Roosevelt and Truman years: "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible because we are final...
...diaries speak for themselves. They record the memorable experiences of Goodfriend's life in a multimedia pageant. In his Harvard diary, for instance, there are sketches of familiar scenes--Elsie's, Harvard Square, faculty teas. There are documents--his admission to Harvard, academic forms, Widener's entries for books he has written in his varied career, and more. There are mementoes and reminders of events--programs from The Game and the Head of the Charles and other activities, and newspaper clippings, postcards,--all swirled together with water colors and magic markers into a vivid collage...