Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the time came for Teng to speak, the barely 5-ft. Vice Premier mounted a booster step so that he could see over the lectern. Speaking in his thick Szechwan accent, he talked of the "great possibilities," "broad vistas" and "fruitful results" that Sino-American cooperation offered...
...Bakhtiar government, he can bring the country peaceably to a referendum on a new constitution. He doesn't even have to fear chaos too greatly. He already has 90% of the people with him. If he now begins to share his absolute power and allow other groups to speak out more, we will be on our way to liberty. Khomeini's real power will be that of the religious leader of Iran...
JERRY GOLDSMITH'S MUSIC is familiar. Geoffrey Unsworth's photography is full of phony compositions and "atmosphere," but since he's dead I won't speak...
With the audacity of the venturesome, Joseph Papp has assembled a black-Hispanic acting troupe, and its debut production is Julius Caesar. In the U.S. the problem of proper delivery of the Shakespearean line transcends ethnic background or race. Few, if any, American actors are qualified to speak in iambic pentameter. Lacking sufficient breath control, they pant when they should roar, and jangle the music and authority of poetic rhetoric...
...Despite its title, Julius Caesar is Brutus' play. It is the tragedy of a philosopher-saint. From the beginning, he is morally wary of Cassius' insinuative efforts to draw him into a conspiracy against Caesar. Yet his love for Rome renders him vulnerable. He asks Cassius to speak openly...