Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith, 59, is by now fairly well accustomed to being treated as an enemy. No Pretoria parish in the Dutch Reformed Church has invited him to speak since he went to Mamelodi. People he thought were friends have turned away. There are telephone calls in the night. "Now that you're living with the Kaffirs," said one caller, "when we come to shoot them, we'll shoot...
Despite his mental instability, Jerry, like Grandma, seems to speak with Albee's voice, attacking Peter's satisfied docility, moral cowardice and lack of conviction. The passage of time, however, has made Peter (and Daddy) into easy and common targets. It's not surprising these days to see a condemnation of Yuppies, which is what Peter is, 1950s-style. Also outdated are Jerry's use of the word "colored" instead of "Black" and his attempt to shock Peter with a brief and sketchy account of the single homosexual experience of his youth. If Peter stood for the values...
...levitate, spoons to bend and electron beams to change direction. Their subject, Uri Geller, quickly became a celebrity, but Randi, watching him perform, was < unimpressed. "The tricks were very simple," he says. "There was nothing you couldn't get off the back of a cornflakes box, so to speak." Randi decided it was time...
Admiral James Watkins is a man determined to speak bluntly, and damn the torpedoes! As chairman of the 13-member presidential AIDS commission, he began his study of the AIDS crisis eight months ago by warning that his findings would not be swayed by political considerations. Last week, before a packed Washington press conference, he ended the study with the same forthrightness. In issuing a 269-page draft of the commission's final report, he managed both to show a fine disregard for prevailing prejudices about AIDS and to issue a sharp challenge to the Reagan Administration. Going beyond...
...Students do not work for us on projects that require Secret Service clearance, such as when President Aquino came to speak," Rogers says. "The FAS faculty meetings are taped by an officer of the University, and a professional, full-time worker who has been with the department for the last 17 years records the Board [of Overseers] meetings...