Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California went to the polls the old man fortified himself with his usual morning drink: four parts apple juice and one part cranberry juice. Later, seated in a barbershop near his West Los Angeles office, he held court, conducting interviews, mugging for photographers and reworking his victory speech. A concession statement? Howard Jarvis did not see why he should waste his time. Sure enough, a few hours later, an ecstatic Jarvis stood on the podium in the Los Angeles Biltmore, blowing kisses to his screaming supporters. "Now we know how it felt when they dumped English tea in Boston harbor...
...nonserious poetry, Auden's collection displayed crippling drawbacks: much of it was of the hey-nonny-nonny variety, and too much of it was not funny. This lapse was intentional. Auden saw humor as incidental to light verse; far more important, he claimed, was the quality of common speech that all classes of society could understand. Milton wrote for the educated elite; the light-versifier hummed to a simpler, more general rhythm and turned his hand to things like this...
...Stanford ruling came only weeks after Chief Justice Warren Burger declared, in an opinion in another case, that journalists have no greater right to free speech than other people do. Though the justices have a mixed record on press-freedom issues, last week's decision was seen by many journalists as unmistakable evidence of court hostility to the press. Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas blasted the decision as "incredible and terrible." ABC News Commentator Howard K. Smith called it the "most dangerous ruling the court has made in memory." Washington Star Executive Editor Sidney Epstein was afraid the court...
...Class of '28) chaired at least one of the sessions with an appearance of fine impartiality. I managed to get to the platform to make a pitch for Norman Thomas, but my friend Tom refused to recognize me, loftily explaining that "Mr. Herling is about to deliver another socialist speech." After 1933, with the coming of the New Deal, Tom matured rapidly and joined the Roosevelt administration to help draft social security legislation, thus helping to carry out one of the "socialist" planks of 1928. "It was a far, far better thing that he did." (I think that Newton Baker...
...Commencement speech will be Solzhenitsyn's first major public appearance since his arrival in the United States three years ago following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in February...