Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dillon said he favors a Black Studies department for Harvard and every university in the country. "What we're fighting for is a revolutionary Black Studies department that will speak for the needs of the students...
...language requirements are the biggest problem," one students said before the meeting. "We're required to know four languages for generals in Far Eastern Languages. And that just wastes our time. People don't speak Harvard Chinese in China. We have to learn it all over again anyway when we leave the country...
...picture six weeks ago at a Press screening in L.A. and two days later was lucky enough to speak with Fritz Lang, a magnificent man and one of our greatest artists. Long recounted that a major studio executive said to him during the summer, "We don't want to make good pictures out here--only moneymakers with as little risk as possible." Neither Lang nor I could think of a single working director here who actively opposes this true production code: "They've all given up," Lang said shaking his head more in irritation than sadness, "Nobody in Hollywood fights...
...Vonnegut's writing will lose its appeal a few ages hence. Certainly life will continue to become even more complex and our minds will want to identify that this is happening to us. But will people drift out of the particular absurdities they now languish in and start speaking in a new idiom different from the one Vonnegut's characters used to speak? And would such an occurrence make the then readers unable to recognize the truth in the writing and hence not laugh? Well, fundamentally I believe that it is the cliches that will never change, that...
...spent eight years in the actual writing of it, it is singular that he devoted no attention at all to he Spiritualist sects, of which Turner was clearly one of the more outstanding members. Styron's character is not even well enough acquainted with the church's rhetoric to speak in the vernacular. He constantly refers to "visions" from Heaven. Modern black clergy would refer to the same Occurrences as visits from the Spirit or the Holy Ghost, and in the original confessions, Nat Turner uses the term Spirit throughout. Styron's hero preaches only once in the entire book...