Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument. "By raising in court the question of whether the authority had been exercised by the President and Fellows, then we would raise the question on campus of whether the President and Fellows indeed have that authority. [In delivering the warning and ordering in the police] someone purported to speak on the part of the University. Dean Watson and Dean Glimp both disavowed any authority to remove the people from the building. If someone had said 'Yes, I did it,' he'd have a lot of questions to answer to the Faculty, because they would dispute his right...
...about the team's deficient attitude. Ince then got up and said he didn't think things were all that bad and that everyone shouldn't get down. He didn't say it with great eloquence, and Leahey's point of view certainly mad more sense, but hearing Ince speak as he did was somehow impressive. It was just good to hear his belief that the team shouldn't be so self-critical. There was lors of feeling...
...haunting, accomplished and entirely Nabokovian novel about a man who loses his own identity trying to write the fictional biography of his lost brother, it appeared almost unnoticed. By the time he reached Cornell he had published Bend Sinister (1947), a study of a police state, parts of Speak, Memory, one of the most beautiful autobiographies in English. Yet he was barely known on campus as a man of letters, much less a literary genius...
Save Me, Save Me. The Goodrich defense has been doubly effective because U.S. securities laws commit Northwest executives to frustrating silence until their tender offer expires in June. Heineman has been able to speak out only to the extent of blaming his firm's first-quarter loss largely on a strike at its Lone Star Steel Co. and the severe weather, which hampered its rail operations. He has also talked in general terms about struggles for corporate control. "There are a lot of frightened, stodgy companies with frightened, stodgy managements," he says. "Conservative businessmen are running to the Government...
Sheila Hart (Phaedra) speaks with bewildered and frightened passion as the queen who lusts for her son Hippolytus. She commands such respect with each word that her accusingly harsh "Wicked!" to her Nurse seems to damn her for eternity. When she cries "Women, stop speaking!", they dare not speak. And when she predicts her fate, Death!", I feared for her very existence. Miss Hart overcome the awkward hand gestures devised by the director by using her face and the slightest turn of her head to convey the deepest emotion...