Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Droney had held the office virtually unopposed since his appointment by then-U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy '40 in 1959. For the last three years of his reign he had suffered from a debilitating illness that hindered his ability to speak or walk without some form of assistance. Through the workings of his publicity-oriented office and the efforts of his highly-capable, highly-ambitious first assistant, John F. Kerry, Droney created the facade of an active crime-buster seeking another term...
...quite possible to attend Despair in the wrong frame of mind, having worked one's emotions into shape for piano moving, so to speak, only to find that there is nothing heavier than a seltzer bottle or a nightgown being lifted. Despair is, in fact, a light and lavender comedy about a crazed Russian émigré named Hermann Hermann, who watches in amazement as his mind splits like his name, into two equal parts. The film is set in Berlin. Based on a 1936 novel written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, it is hopeless in mood, but most...
Short Stories: Five Decades speak exclusively in the past tense. Because of them, Irwin Shaw's claims for redemption can be written in the future definite. -Stefan Kanfer
...them.") has occasioned protests of the film from Ankara and Turkish students living in the United States. Other touches added by Parker only underline the anti-Turkish prespective of the film: subtitles seem to have been deliberately omitted, thereby inflicting an incomprehensible gibberish on anyone who does not speak Turkish; the swarthy faces of Turksih prision guards and interrogrators often fill the screen, making them all the more sinister and awe-inspiring...
...report from the state laboratory will not arrive for two weeks, he added. "It's possible that the number of cases from Winthrop House is much higher. We can only speak positively of those patients who have had positive tests," Wacker said...