Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alienation has been the intellectual's occupational disease throughout history, the assumption being that he must be a critic of society and established values. Says M.I.T. Linguist Noam Chomsky: "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." Unfortunately, human affairs often yield a multiplicity of truths, a fact that some intellectuals find hard to tolerate. In her book, Vietnam, Mary McCarthy made a strong case for U.S. withdrawal, but she rejected any obligation to suggest how it might be achieved. The fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human...
Jean-Louis Barrault, one of the world's greatest living actors, will give the Theodore Spencer Lecture at 4 p.m. today at the Loeb Drama Center. Barrault will speak on the modern French Theatre...
...Allard Lowenstein (D-N.Y.), organizer of the "Dump Johnson" movement, will speak in Burr B at 8 p.m. tonight. The speech is sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats...
...been this ceaseless warding off of despair, symbolizing his survival through disasters to which others succumbed, which has given to Ungaretti his remarkable capacity to speak amidst these silences and to shatter the mute world of Europe in the twentieth century...
Pierrot started asking Marianne questions, trying to find out what she was like. "You speak to me with words and I look at you with emotions," she lamented...