Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BLACK STAR Among the most important was Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who said she delayed agreeing to speak up for Connally for a week, partly because she felt she was "being used ... because [Washington] is an overwhelmingly black town" but finally testified on his behalf for the sake of fairness...
...meantime, the Security Council meeting on the Palestinians had been rescheduled for last week. To avert a showdown there, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had devised a plan to offer the U.N. a more moderate U.S. resolution that would speak of the Palestinians' human rights but not their right to an independent state. They sent Special Envoy Robert Strauss flying off to the Middle East, under strict, sealed instructions signed by Carter, to explain this plan to Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. Finding them both...
...bill for three nights spent in New York City's Pierre hotel. Last year, he took a woman friend on a trip to Peking as an official interpreter at E.C. expense and over Budget Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat's objections. Though the woman was multilingual, she happened to speak not a word of Chinese...
...range of Adams' achievement as a printmaker is to realize that no photographer in the history of the medium has managed to combine the monumental with the fugitive, the simultaneous awareness of vulnerability and endurance, more concisely. Yet even as they are praising nature, Adams' late prints speak of anxiety. For what is this perfectionism about, if not the desire to refine and perpetuate a sense of paradise that continually slips away, recorded only in silver particles and the memory of old men??Robert Hughes
...children. One of the movement's organizers and a leader of the weekly Manhattan tours is Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which contends that rape is a social and political instrument to oppress women. Adds Psychologist Phyllis Chesler: "For years women have been reluctant to speak out against pornography for fear of being called prudes or bluestockings or evoking the ridicule...