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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your book reviewer seems puzzled both as to where T. S. Eliot found the original title of The Waste Land [Nov. 22] and what that title He Do the Police in Different Voices means. I cannot speak with authority as to why Eliot chose to call his poem by that name, but there is no doubt that it comes from a book called Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 1968 | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Expects Saigon to "take the lead and be the main spokesman on all matters which are of principal concern to South Viet Nam." In such matters of "hard ware" as troop withdrawals and a ceasefire, the U.S. will continue to speak for the allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE SECOND PHASE IN PARIS | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Some say that a society cannot be run on idealistic lines because, to speak symbolically, someone has to collect the garbage. I disagree. Why can't machines do the collecting? Why is it impossible that everybody might help? If actions were not dictated by your desire for wealth, garbage collecting would be like any other job. There is no theoretical barrier to a good society. One just has to try to achieve it; other animal societies have. The bees, for example, and they have evolved for at least a billion years longer than man so there must be something rational...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Back to the Basics-Theoretics | 12/4/1968 | See Source »

David Frost, a graduate student who is enrolled in Army ROTC, asked to speak at the conclusion of the speakers' opening statementis. "If you agree with SDS that I'm being immoral when I join ROTC, Frost told the meeting, "then I might as well not talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty to Consider ROTC Today But Probably Won't Make Decision | 12/3/1968 | See Source »

Fernando Belaunde Terry, deposed president of Peru, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight at the Quincy House JCR. The subject of his talk will be "The Development of the Americas: A Common Task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deposed President | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

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