Word: speech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry N. Lamar, freshman football coach, presented the awards, substituting for varsity coach Norman W. Shepard, who was unable to attend. Lamar, quoting from Shepard's prepared speech, said that Boulris' name "will be high in the annals of Harvard baseball." Harrington was said "to possess all the qualities of Dana J.P. Wingate, for whom the award is named...
Your report of my speech at the Ford Hall Forum is a disheartening experience. In the limited space available to me, let me mention three points in which your correspondent completely misunderstood what I said...
...than any man alive, and who had been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with his whole life." He went on to censure the "passions" that created the contradiction "between the words of the man standing and the murmurs...
...Pravda has come to print an occasional dissident word. Last week it not only published the text of U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's speech before the National Foreign Trade Council but reprinted from U.S. News & World Report an interview with Iowa Corn Farmer Roswell Garst, who played host to Khrushchev during the Soviet Chairman's U.S. visit last September. Garst's frank talk about Russian agriculture (still primitive by U.S. standards) and Khrushchev (rough, tough and cruel, but "not all black") got by untouched...
...were to compare his position today with that of a year ago, he must conclude that the best way to deal with the West is to frighten," Henry A. Kissinger '50, associate director of the Center for International Affairs, told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night in a speech assessing the United States' position in world affairs...