Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally shaken off the dust of Georgia. What had been Forrest Street -- named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan -- is now named in memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel the South, organizing the struggle, are now in City...
...years passed, he would speak more warmly about Kennedy, and remember even more ties than there were. He now answers "Kennedy" when asked who most drew him toward politics -- an answer that intrigues Martin Linsky, a Brookliner who went on, like Dukakis, to the state legislature and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "Considering how unlike Kennedy Dukakis is, and how little he knew him, and how different their politics are, it is a typically Dukakis answer -- one that reveals absolutely nothing about Michael Dukakis, which is the most revealing thing about it." If anything drove Dukakis into government...
...They have shown how groups become empowered to speak for themselves," said Ann Maguire, executive director of the city's Emergency Shelter Commission...
Caprio decided to back Dukakis after hearing the governor speak last August. Dukakis spoke about dealing with drugs and with improving education, and Caprio said Dukakis' address "really struck a nerve in me. I really saw the country going the wrong...
Ever since Stewart starred in the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, he has the kind of style Dukakis needs in a running mate. Let Mr. Smith speak...