Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of the Interior, will speak at Commencement exercises in Sanders Theatre when degrees are conferred on more than 200 seniors, and candidates for M.A. and Ph.D.'s, and certificates are awarded to students in the Management Training Program...
...believes that wide limits for free expression by professors are in the interest of her students as well as the teachers. The teachers have rights as citizens to speak and write as men of independence; the students also have their rights to be taught by men of independent mind...
...years later, his spiritual superiors asked Pére Couturier what he thought of the present art in churches. His answer came with surprising vehemence. "Our church art is in complete decay," he burst out. "It is dead, dusty, academic-imitations of imitations . . . with no power to speak to modern...
...Outside the Church the great modern masters have walked-Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Braque. The Church has not reached out, as once it would have, to bring them in. And here we have men who speak directly to the people with the same simple power of the great artists of the Middle Ages . . . These moderns are greater than the sensual men of the Renaissance." Father Couturier's superiors were impressed. "See what you can do," they told...
...That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger) had been troubling Richard for some time. He was the stranger who often walked just a few feet ahead of him on his way to the railroad station-the man to whom Richard always wanted to speak, but never dared. Later Richard suspected him (correctly) of having delivered the mysterious sealed manuscript to his office. After their first formal meeting on Neighbor Sharpy Cullen's terrace, Richard encountered That Man many times-in his home, on his walks, even wearing the cap of a Manhattan taxi...