Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only fair. Dozens of Bush signs provided by the campaign lie unused on the ground. Some campaign officials wanted to stage the rally indoors, but Lanny Griffith, the Southern coordinator, insisted on palm trees and the gulf as the appropriate TV backdrop. Bush has only an outline to speak from, and his off-the-cuff remarks are off the mark: "I know I have the commitment of the innate honesty and decency of the United States...
...paid for it. Now Congress is considering bills that would do likewise. Because one result might be to give film artists a say in whether their work is "colorized" or similarly fiddled with, Producer George Lucas and Director Steven Spielberg showed up last week at Senate hearings to speak in favor of such legislation. If unchecked, said Lucas, "current and future technologies will alter, mutilate and destroy . . . subtle human truths...
Sicilians speak of a "man of respect," a phrase suggesting, at its darkest reach, a gravitas that can not only hurt but even kill in order to enforce that respect. Gravitas is a phenomenon of power, but the forms and styles of power are various. Dictators are forever strutting the tinhorn's impersonation of gravitas. Brute power is only one of the cruder types, and it is sometimes subdued by other forms: a moral gravitas, for example. Martin Luther King Jr. brought his gravitas to bear against men of power who were morally vacant. Gravitas may be aggression...
...staff backing HUCTW's parent union. Then, two weeks later, Rep. Barney Frank '62 (D.-Mass.), wrote his own letter supporting the union and criticizing the University's anti-union status. Frank--who first coined the phrase "it's not anti-Harvard to be pro-union"--has pledged to speak on campus in favor of the union...
...quick-witted unflappable Harvard students will get their chance this spring to hear Vanna speak--in person...