Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult one to construct due to the frequent changes required, was a bit rudimentary. The first scene, in which some of the main philosophical problems of the play are set out, is constructed so that two or three dialogues occur at the same time, though no two people speak simultaneously. Though kept distinct from one another, the dialogues blend intellectually and ideologically to set the stage for the ensuing action. This jumping from one conversation to the next requires, of course, a perfect knowledge of the text and an exquisite sense of timing, which at times is lacking...
Professor Alan Dershowitz's Dec. 9 op-ed ("Barr's Real Americans") contains serious factual inaccuracies and damaging accusations about the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) as well as about Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.). While Rep. Barr may speak for himself, it is important that Mr. Dershowitz's irresponsible statements about the CofCC be corrected...
...talks about the President. Hear his Clintonian combination of self-pity and feigned ignorance after he was called a racist for addressing the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that proudly calls itself white supremacist. "It is a sad day in our country when a member of Congress cannot speak without...an exhaustive investigation to determine if one of their members has ever written an offensive or ridiculous column...
When Livingston was finished, his Republican colleagues gave him a standing ovation. Before they left the room, the assembled Republicans seemed to have agreed on answers to the inevitable questions from the media. As he emerged from the meeting, Judiciary Committee member Asa Hutchinson was sullen and slow to speak. "I don't think we should feel uncomfortable proceeding to the floor tomorrow," he finally said. New Jersey Representative Bob Franks called it "a matter between Speaker Livingston and [his wife...
After losing my voice to throat cancer from smoking cigarettes, I learned to speak again, with much work. When I retired from teaching, I began to visit schools and speak to kids about not smoking. My message was, "Nobody told me, but I'm telling you: Look what tobacco did to me." Then I'd whip open my shirt and show the hole in my neck. That's when I know I'm getting through to them. The shock of what cancer can do is the real thing. BILL MOSS Miami