Word: speech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Market is probably two or three years off at least, British leaders are already promoting this point of view. John Davies, outgoing director general of the Confederation of British Industry -whose U.S. equivalent is the National Association of Manufacturers-summed up the feeling recently in a farewell speech to his members. "The postwar history of our relationship with continental Europe," said Davies, directing his remarks across the Channel as well, "is one of missed opportunities, and not only on our side. The longer we postpone trying to develop as a continent rather than as a series of increasingly inadequate nation...
...Vice President Agnew's attacks on the press with alarm, but one unelected elite-the humor columnists -was beginning to relax and enjoy it. "Boy, you guys have put me back in business," Art Buchwald told Administration Communications Director Herb Klein shortly after Agnew's Des Moines speech. "Where do I send the wine...
...Hoppe of the San Francisco Chronicle went to the future tense. It is January 1971, and President Nixon has just assessed the state of the Union. "Well, Chet, do you have an instant analysis?" "Yes, I do, David. I'd say it was the most magnificent, glorious, stirring speech since the Gettysburg Address. I think my biggest thrill came when he said, T want to make one thing perfectly clear.' I always get a thrill when I realize the President's going to make one thing perfectly clear...
...fascinated by the melodic curves of speech. He would eavesdrop on conversations in the street, jotting down musical notations of individual speech patterns. He claimed to have recorded 60 distinct ways in which the word yes could be pronounced. He was also fascinated by bird calls, animal cries, and the whispering of leaves. Conversations between his dogs were carefully transcribed onto music paper. Czech Conductor Karel Ančerl, now music director of the Toronto Symphony, recalls the first time he saw Janáček: "I was returning home from a party with a few friends. A full moon...
Memories of Zapruder. By definition Z is a polemic. The film plainly exaggerates the horrors of the present Greek scene. But it is a po'emic that was created, not just felt, partly by using dialogue that is more like lyrics than speech. According to traditionalist historians, there is no history, only biography. Z reverses the proposition; there are only forces, not men. Accordingly, the leading roles are the sort one would find on a chessboard. In an essentially small part, Montand is again Camus-like, at once involved and lofty. Trintignant, more through skill than script, turns...