Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defend themselves." The onetime boy wonder from Brooklyn (he was a full professor at Harvard at 28) admits to being "an extremist" on civil liberties. His credo: "If there is discrimination against anybody, there is discrimination against everybody." He has fought for the rights of American Nazis to speak and assemble, and successfully defended Actor Harry Reems, the lead in Deep Throat, against obscenity charges. Though a Jew and an ardent Zionist, Dershowitz has criticized Israel for establishing settlements on the West Bank. For that, he says, "my mother really gave me hell...
Everywhere, loyalty had be come the watchword. A President who had entered office promising that associates could speak their minds freely, both in the privacy of the White House and in public forums, had clearly heard enough. With the exception of Bell, Carter removed non-Georgian dissenters and replaced them with men who had already demonstrated their loyalty to the Carter team. In any other terms, Carter's purge accomplished remarkably little. It brought no new faces of distinction into the Administration. In effect, the President and his men had done little more than try to shift blame for their...
...imagine a more vivid contrast to strutting President Tacho Somoza than the cool, unflappable man who has taken his place as the dominant figure in Nicaragua's government. Sergio Ramírez Mercado, 36, is a baby-faced intellectual who attracts little attention until he begins to speak, in a soft, nasal voice. But his quiet charisma has enabled the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) writer to win the confidence of all the factions represented on the five-member ruling junta and its 15-member Cabinet, though the ideologies range from the doctrinaire Marxism of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega...
...answers. These are unexceptionable performances, clean and firm-if anything, too firm in the emphatic attack in the Beethoven and the clipped chords of the Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. What is missing, and it may be too early to expect it, is a distinctive Muti accent for the orchestra to "speak...
What the switchboard operators heard was definitely not mellow-speak. Not laid back either. It was sheer, white-hot anger. The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and half a dozen other papers had yanked Garry Trudeau's Pulitzer-prizewinning comic strip Doonesbury, and thousands of irate devotees wanted to know...