Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaks, Seeger's voice registers two distinctly different tones. When he reminisces about his life, or discusses the historical aspect of folk music, it is matter-of-fact. But whenever he talks of his concern for peace and understanding, or his faith in mankind, he seems to project himself onto the concert stage: his voice becomes resonant and sincere. He is like a universal lover pleading with the world to 'believe in me, for I speak the truth...
Academician V. A. Fock, of the University of Leningrad, one of the five Russian scholars visiting the University, will speak today on Some Questions in the Physical Interpretation of Quantum Machanics in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Large Lecture Hall...
Wherever Kennedy went last week, he drew enthusiastic crowds. Nearly 1,000 turned out for a Milwaukee dinner; 400 showed up in Sheboygan; one man drove 100 miles to hear Kennedy speak in Madison. The tousle-headed Senator punched hard and earnestly. He pushed his Kennedy-Ervin labor bill ("We will find out in the Senate who is anti-racketeering and who is merely anti-labor-who wants a law this year and who wants a campaign issue for next year"). He proposed a Kennedy refinement of the Brannan farm plan. He hammered the Administration for "no new ideas...
...cried the Laborite Daily Herald. The Daily Sketch had some advice "to an old and meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press has been lecturing Adenauer, De Gaulle or any U.S. Senator who has anything harsh to say about Russia, as if to speak firmly were to jeopardize the chances of negotiation and peace. London's popular press presents the Berlin crisis not as a struggle between Russia and the West, but between a peace-loving Macmillan and an obstinate Eisenhower (whom former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge last week described as the "poor...
...freeze" at existing levels, and currently the fashionable word is a "ceiling" on troop strengths. But rather than having specific proposals, Macmillan seems simply eager to have something to talk about, and to be convinced that talking is all to the good. He has even begun to speak of a "re-occurring summit''-a kind of periodically assembled global board of directors...