Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hotshots draw regular fire from purists for turning an aesthetic pursuit into a macho, competitive struggle. But even superlisters have been known to speak of birds with awe and wonder. Explanations for the appeal of birding proliferate, says Joseph Kastner, author of A World of Watchers, because it is hard to explain what the beauty and freedom of birds can do to the human psyche. At the heart of birding, he writes, is the "astonished awareness that comes in some unguarded moment when the watcher is left oddly vulnerable to feelings that only nature can provoke...
Releasing the film under both its French and English titles is perhaps a ploy to lure American moviegoers who would like to speak French but don't. But it also preserves the metaphor in the title: "meduses" which means jellyfish in French is also the man-killing monster of Greek mythology...
...special privilege to speak at the final commencement of a great leader of American higher education. For over 30 years, Ted Hesburgh has taught us all that it means to be an educator in the fullest sense of the word. At a time when so many of us are little more than energetic administrators, Ted has succeeded not only in strengthening Notre Dame academically but in teaching audiences everywhere about the values that matter in our society...
...unusual accomplishment this has been. University presidents constantly try to please all of their constituencies because their institutions cannot prosper without the support of faculty, students, and alumni, not to mention foundation officers and government officials. It is all the more remarkable, therefore, that Ted has been willing to speak and speak again for ideas and ideals which he knew were unsettling and unpopular...
...tell, Mr. Sisulu's only 'crime' has been to speak his mind," said Mike Pride, editor of the Concord, N.H. Monitor, who with other American and South African journalists nominated Sisulu for the award...