Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world possible, but it will probably precede any sort of sense-making world state. Tossing aside his 7,000-word manuscript, Dean Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control, he said, the law has gone through four stages of development: 1) the strict law, e.g., Roman law, composed of a set of completely rigid rules, 2) equity and natural law, insisting on reason and morality over mere rules, 3) maturity...
...marionettes on a hundred invisible strings. With his left hand shaking, soothing, plucking, dancing, he shaped phrases, tossed cues, whipped his men to new intensities. What he did above all was to keep an inexorable grip on the tempo and rhythm, and, never aiming at stunts, he tried to speak with Beethoven's voice. He succeeded perhaps better than any other living conductor...
...tearing down of a section of the old Rogers Block, the first Urban Renewal project, will be preceded by a motorcade leaving City Hall at 4:30 p.m. Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and other city officials will speak at the demolition site...
Robert Frost '01 and John P. Marquand '15 will speak this week in Adams House and Kirkland House in their first appearances under the Ford Foundation grants to the Houses...
...Harvard Liberal Union will join with the Society for Minority Rights to invite segregationist David Wang to speak "sometime before Christmas vacation," president Herbert E. Milstein '58 announced yesterday...