Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against open-housing measures. But many seem to find it difficult to accept Wallace's radicalism, with its unabashed divisions between "them" and "us." At any rate, Wallace, the master of noise and turmoil, was unnerved by the unaccustomed silence. "It's real difficult for me to speak to an orderly crowd," he confessed to 3,500 aerospace workers near Los Angeles. "It really throws me, if you want to know the truth...
Worst of all, local politicians warned that the Waterbury speech would be a disaster. United Auto Workers local chief Frank Santiquido had promised a crowd of 10,000 and wanted Humphrey to speak from a U.A.W. balcony. But George Wallace's appeal among the auto workers clearly precluded any such turnout. Murphy, fearful that Humphrey would be shouting down from a balcony to a handful of people, drove to Waterbury and moved the speaker's platform down to the green...
...Pavel Litvinov, the 31-year-old physicist grandson of Stalin's prewar Foreign Minister. The reasoned, quiet pleas of the two dissenters are an eloquent echo of all those, from Socrates to Zola, who risked their own freedom in order to defend the right of men to speak freely...
Paul Freund, University Professor, will speak on "Conscience and the Law," at 8 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
...hard to explain why. Drawings are intimate and unimposing art objects--more so than any other genre. The viewer must come to them, bring them out of themselves to get them to speak. But too many different things happen to allow one to really relax with any part of them. One leaves the exhibit overextended and vaguely annoyed...