Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his speech to the Mexican congress, which Carter delivered in Spanish, the president said Mexico's new found oil and natural gas riches will help lift the Mexican standard of living closer to that of the United States, which in turn will help slow immigration north...
...pivotal issue in the Pope's speech was one of tactics. John Paul believes more rights can be gained for the oppressed through moral education than by agitation and revolution. Said he: "Whatever the miseries or sufferings that afflict man, it is not through violence, the interplay of power, and political systems, but through the truth concerning man, that he journeys toward a better future...
American militants were upset that the Pope made only indirect attacks on right-wing regimes that have been harassing and murdering activist priests. One bishop told TIME that because of this omission, the speech had condemned him and others to possible martyrdom. Another bishop said that dictatorships will now use the Pope's words as an excuse to repress all social action by priests and nuns...
Nothing has raised the question more forcefully than President Carter's embarrassing effort in his State of the Union speech to establish his Administration's slogan. Although his staff has had two years to mull over the matter, what they came up with was something called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that...
...love each other. He attempts to explain Lewis' problem in the final scene, where Dern, who has gotten drunk and become violent, sits strapped in a straitjacket and launches into a lengthy monologue as Lewis's father, revealing the old man's perpetual dissatisfaction with his son. The speech should be a tour-de-force--Dern does a beautiful job with it--but it is so empty in concept, so obvious in construction, that it reveals nothing except the playwright's desire to wrap things up neatly...