Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s and '80s, during the era of ferocious antimodernist reaction. But now the pendulum is swinging back again, which may account for this week's eleventh-hour attempt to rehabilitate two modernist reputations at once. Neither prizewinner is interested in making a pretense of mellowness. In the acceptance speech he prepared for his daughter to read, Niemeyer disparaged a "minor architecture made with a ruler and square" and, a bit self-servingly, endorsed the "search for the spectacular." The more plainspoken Bunshaft dismisses apostates and revels in his sense of vindication. "I think the committee is saying that modern architecture...
...There were a lot of things that contributed to the spectacle of the 1960s. We do not have a war going on today. We do not need a free speech movement. Administrators do not call the police at demonstrations. And the demography has changed--there were an awful lot of kids then, who got angry awfully fast," Kornbluh says...
...requirements of a good treaty and not some arbitrary deadline that will determine the timetable," Reagan said in an address beamed across Europe on the U.S. Information Agency's "Worldnet" satellite service. The speech was taped Monday in the Oval Office...
Throughout his 75-minute speech, Kadar faced a nervous and restless audience which, unlike other party meetings, applauded him only after he finished his remarks...
...yesterday's speech, he blasted "loosening" of social morals and the spread of egoism. Kadar said hard times were ahead and asked his countrymen to understand that recently imposed austerity measures were necessary...