Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many exceptions. I also realize that there are many students and tutors in the house, some of whom fit the stereotype and others who do not, who are not interested in the problem and are perfectly content to be living in the existing intolerant environment--so I do not speak for them. I also am not trying to denigrate Kirkland House as a whole; there is a genuine, friendly, and fun-loving quality about the house and many of its residents that can and should not be dismissed easily...
Second, America has more than self-respect to lose by refusing to talk turkey with its friend. It also could lose its friend, since the uncompromising right wing in Israel is only emboldened by America's failure to speak its mind. Eventually America, Jewish and Gentile, would not stand for destructive adamancy. If we failed to say so now, when there is still a chance to use criticism for positive results, we would surely say so later in a furious about-face that would appear sudden when it happened but that in fact would have been born in a deadly...
...when Andrew Young got up to speak to the San Francisco convention about the platform, he was booed by younger delegates loyal to Jackson. At a black caucus, summoned to calm black delegates' angers, Coretta King was booed when she spoke for Young. "That was yesterday," some delegates called up to her. "What have you done for us today?" Young slipped out the back door. Only when Jackson arrived and made an emotional plea for unity did all those onstage lock arms and sing We Shall Overcome. Jackson rebuked his followers: "When I think about the roads I've walked...
Equally offensive is the inclusion of Professor Alan Heimert '49, director of the South Africa Fellows Program, on the agenda. Heimert lost the credibility to speak with any moral authority on Harvard's relations with South Africa when, along with Steiner, he designed the ill-fated internship program to send Harvard students to teach in South African schools. After coming under attack from Black South African leaders for failing to include Blacks in the decision-making process and for not reaching Black South Africans with the internships, the University scrapped the program...
...Gallic shrugs. Perhaps Madame has a lover? The American embassy is all bureaucracy. See that line over there, buddy? Well, go stand in it, and then we'll listen to your troubles. Walker, whose characterization Ford balances nicely between exasperation and desperation, is all thumbs. He does not speak the language, he never gets to sleep, eat or change his suit, and he keeps stumbling into situations in which he needs all the coordination and smarts that regular habits help to ensure. Hitch at least used to give Cary Grant and James Stewart a minute to straighten their ties...