Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WEST GERMAN President Richard von Weizsacker, who recently accepted Harvard's invitation to speak at this June's Commencement Exercises, has earned his place as a moral leader in the world. With persistence and eloquence he has called for his countrymen to remember the horrible lessons of Nazism and to use them to build an increasingly tolerant future. Recently, however, von Weizsacker's call has been ignored by Germans who are beginning to celebrate openly the Nazi-dominated past while forgetting its horrible cost...
Davis was at his prayers next evening at dusk when the witch doctor came to speak to the visitor. The witch doctor, Ole Loompirai, sat in a dark, dung- walled hut and drank beer with the visitor and explained the work that he did. The laibon, or witch doctor, spoke in a low, murmurous voice in Maa, sucking frequently on an oversize bottle of Tusker, a faintly smoky Kenya beer brought up in the Land Cruiser from Narok. Moses impassively translated...
...visitor conceived a modest theory about dreams. The difference between the Kenya nightmares and the scary dreams of a five-year-old boy in New York City might be that the beasts of primal fantasy live just outside the Masai huts. The Masai reside, so to speak, in the psychic forest, where the wild things are. The beasts there were not invented by an illustrator. They are the originals. The lion roars in the Masai's sleep, and roars when the Masai awakes as well...
...early '70s. In 1973 she spearheaded a movement that prodded the Arizona legislature to pass the first state law limiting smoking in public places. "The time was right," she says now. "People were becoming health conscious. Only thing was, the majority of the nonsmokers were afraid to speak . out; they thought they were in the minority...
...last week Khomeini gave a clear and steady 17-minute talk exhorting his followers to defeat Iraq in the bitter gulf war. Said he: "Almost every day, many children and old men see their homes fall in on them. But as soon as they clamber from the rubble, they speak of the need to make war until victory...